This study identifies a new mechanism to account for the persistent gender differences in earnings after childbirth … conditions at the time of childbearing widen the gender gap among parents. Employing the instrumental variable (IV) method … time and accounts for 30-40 percent of the after-childbirth gender gap in earnings. Unintended impacts of recession on …

This study identifies a new mechanism to account for the persistent gender differences in earnings after childbirth … conditions at the time of childbearing widen the gender gap among parents. Employing the instrumental variable (IV) method … time and accounts for 30 40 percent of the after-childbirth gender gap in earnings. Unintended impacts of recession on …

to two-thirds exhibiting larger declines in women’s than men’s employment rates. These gender differences in COVID-19’s … related to COVID-19’s impacts on gender shares in employment within sectors …

share, but overall, the gender childcare gap (the difference between the share of childcare done by women and the share done …

We study the impact of the pandemic on gender gaps in labor market outcomes in Switzerland. Using the Swiss Labor Force … Survey data, we document a significant increase in the gender gap in labor market participation. We find no evidence of a … worsening of the unemployment gender gap during the pandemic, but we find that women were more likely to uptake short-time work …

points by mid-2017 as a result of the "Family 500+" program. The effect was higher among women with lower levels of education …