-income, high-status jobs. The findings show, first, that social globalization is more consequential for gender inequality in the …-country variations in both women’s labor force participation and gender-linked occupational inequality. Utilizing micro-data from 47 … countries (circa 2013) obtained from the Luxembourg Income Study, we examine the extent to which globalization and each of its …

In most countries, the public sector hires disproportionally more women than men. We document gender differences in … gender wage gaps and thus relatively higher wages for women in the public sector, (ii) possibilities of better conciliation … public sector wages and employment affect male and female unemployment, inactivity rates, and wages differently. …

probit model to analyse gender differences in labour force participation and gender bias in formal wage employment in urban … likely to get formal wage employment, suggesting the existence of gender bias in the labour market in urban areas of Tanzania …. However, after accounting for selection into labour force participation, the existing gender bias is narrowed for women with …

This paper introduces a model of gender inequality and economic growth that focuses on the determination of women … economies, and numerous policy experiments are conducted to investigate how various aspects of gender inequality are related to … the growth performance of the economy. The analysis shows that improving gender equality can contribute significantly to …

We model a mechanism which can generate most of the gender gap in unemployment observed in most of the OECD countries …

After shrinking dramatically during World War Two the gender wage gap (GWG) narrowed again in the early 1970s due to …

This paper investigates the evolution of the gender wage gap in South Africa, using the 1993-2015 Post-Apartheid Labour …-paying industries However, the median gender wage gap is substantial at 23-35 per cent. This is unexplained by differences in human …