the labor division between women and men and show that shocks may disrupt long-standing gender roles. The results are …

A Marriage Bar is the requirement that women working in certain jobs must leave that job when they marry. In the … required women to resign at marriage were introduced in several countries around the world, including Australia, Canada …. The third is to investigate the potential impacts of the Marriage Bar on women's behavior with respect to employment …

of women's fertility on their human capital accumulation. We find that the curvature in the wage profile is determined …. We estimate that the difference in wages among prime age women would be approximately 3% higher if the relationship …

Divorce and widowhood followed by remarriage are common for women in Africa. A key question is how such discontinuous … marital trajectories affect women's wellbeing. Women's marital trajectories in Senegal are described and correlated with … widowhood as well as subsequent remarriage is documented. Poorer women are more vulnerable to both dissolution and remarriage …

’s rapid integration into the supply chain has affected women's welfare outcomes captured by occupational status. The analysis … shows mixed results. On the one hand, global integration through trade expansion improved the concentration of men and women … relative rise in women's income in reducing the sex imbalance. Gender-specific policies should support female migrants in …