effects of CA-PFL. Rights to paid leave are also associated with higher work and employment probabilities for mothers nine to …

empirically investigate the dynamics and drivers of gender gaps in employment rates, wages and workhours during the pandemic … experienced a major decline in their employment rate and workhours, as well as gender segregation in the most affected industries …

education, we find a large and positive effect of tertiary education on employment. It confirms the important role of education … in reducing gender gap in employment. …

This paper examines how the COVID-19 pandemic affected female employment in Japan. Our estimates indicate that the … employment rate of married women with children decreased by 4 percentage points, while that of those without children decreased …' employment. Further, mothers who left or lost their jobs appear to have dropped out of the labor force even several months after …