A large body of empirical evidence documents the gender variation in labour market outcomes. A major factor that … contributes to persistent gender gaps in labour market performance is women’s traditional role in the household. Child … a motherhood penalty. We highlight how the fundamental gender-driven career/family conflict faced by workers in the …

This paper uses cross-country data to examine the long-term effect of trade openness on the gender gaps in wages …, education, political empowerment and health. Key findings are: trade openness since 1970 reduced the gender gaps in wages and … openness on the gender wage gap remained observable in later years (1980, 1990 and 2000), although it decreased in degree over …

We develop a two sector competitive equilibrium model that rationalizes the gender pay gap by the coexistence of two … on their physical endowments. We prove the existence of a competitive equilibrium where the gender pay gap arises. The … an ineffective way to reduce the gender pay gap …

We develop a model to study the impact on gender gaps in participation and wages of a liquidity constraint that … gender gaps in the labour market. In this framework, an extension of paid maternity leave duration has ambiguous effects on … gender inequality. In contrast, child care subsidies, which require higher taxes, and loans, which do not, unambiguously …

This paper uses cross-country data to examine the long-term effect of trade openness on the gender gaps in wages …, education, political empowerment and health. Key findings are: trade openness since 1970 reduced the gender gaps in wages and … openness on the gender wage gap remained observable in later years (1980, 1990 and 2000), although it decreased in degree over …

We develop an equilibrium model of the labor market to investigate the joint evolution of gender gaps in labor force … favored women, especially college-educated women. Consistent with these results, we see a widening of the gender wage gap at … skilled women. The growth of appliances acted to widen the gender wage gap and the decline of fertility to narrow it. We also …

such as Oaxaca decompositions and quantile counterfactual approaches. In an application, we study gender disparities in the … fairly in the public sector, we find that the gender gap in propensity to get job positions along the wage distribution is … rather similar in the two sectors. The gender wage gap in the public sector is 13% and it increases by only 0.7 percentage …

We develop an assignment model of automation. Each of a continuum of tasks of variable complexity is assigned to either … capital or one of a continuum of labor skills. We characterize conditions for interior automation, whereby tasks of … intermediate complexity are assigned to capital. Interior automation arises when the most skilled workers have a comparative …

Using linked employer-employee data from Brazil, we document a large gender pay gap due to women working at lower … suggests that amenities are important for both men and women, that compensating differentials explain half of the gender pay … gap, and that there are significant output and welfare gains from eliminating gender differences. However, equal …

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the mechanisms underlying the relationship between automation and labor … realize the tasks necessary for the production process. The two scenarios considered, with and without automation, confirm … that automation is indeed a key factor in polarizing the structure of skill demand and increasing wage inequality. This …