This book focuses on the changing gender patterns of work in a global retail environment associated with the rise of … global retail opens up new channels to leverage more gender-equitable gains in sourcing countries. …

This book focuses on the changing gender patterns of work in a global retail environment associated with the rise of … global retail opens up new channels to leverage more gender-equitable gains in sourcing countries. …

and Demographic Employment Patterns -- Equilibrium Unemployment and the Duration of Unemployment Benefits -- Social … Wage Inequality -- Economic Transformation and the Gender Earnings Gap in Urban China -- The Geography of Poverty … Unemployment in Europe? Concepts and Measurement in the European Community Household Panel -- Workers and Labour Market Outcomes of …

In all Western societies women earn lower wages on average than men. The gender wage gap has existed for many years … progress made by women in the labor market, and the characteristics and causes of remaining gender inequalities. It also covers … other dimensions of inequality and their interplay with gender, such as family formation, wellbeing, race, and immigrant …

This paper reviews the empirical literature on the existence and impact of gender discriminatory laws on women …'s outcomes across various domains (categories) that constitute the Women in Business and the Law measure of gender inequality …. The evidence to date suggests that there are significant negative consequences of legal gender discrimination on women …