for all individuals of the same age and level of education, so it ignores labor market intermittency because of childbirth … can be generated using commonly available data on labor force participation rates by age and gender to gauge the … probability of past work. Applying the measure to labor force survey data from the Philippines shows that conventional proxies …

production and patterns of employment, with important consequences on task composition of occupations. This paper has utilized … role, with routine-task intensity of jobs and education explaining the majority of differences in earnings. Our analysis … suggests that investing in education should be the highest priority, with greater emphasis on skillbiased training programmes …

effects on male and female workers in India. It describes trends in employment shares and wages for female and male workers … cognitive occupations for both categories have the smallest employment shares, there are also important differences. An … investigation into the changes in employment shares reveals that female workers suffer less of a decline in routine cognitive jobs …

gender gap. -- gender gap ; employment ; education ; transition economies … has shrunken after and during the transition period. On the other hand in such fields as secondary and tertiary education …

research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap …

human capital choice. We show that the change in gender employment cyclicality can explain 38 to 44 percent of the emergence …

This dissertation consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education …

disparities for women and men across different labor outcomes following the birth of the first child. Our findings show that, the … responses in earnings and labor market participation by educational level: college-educated women react to motherhood more on …

In this paper, we analyse the role of the changing nature of occupational employment and wages in explaining the trend … inequality which is best explained by the fall in the skill premium that followed the expansion of education. This period was …

participation and wages over the life- course for men and women. Those with a higher PGS spend more time in employment and full …-time employment and, when in employment, earn higher hourly wages. The employment associations are more pronounced for women than for … men. Conditional on employment, the PGS wage associations are sizeable, persistent and similar for men and women between …