This paper uses the task-content-of-occupations framework to analyze trends in employment and wages of female and male …: nonroutine cognitive, routine cognitive, nonroutine manual, and routine manual. Decomposing the changes in employment shares into … between-industry changes and within-industry changes across occupational categories reveals that within-industry employment …

Early evidence on the pandemic’s effects pointed to women’s employment falling disproportionately, leading observers to … 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 …

in terms of increased full time employment and working hours. The findings also suggest that it is harder for the female … regional unemployment rate, we also find a substantial discouraged worker effect …

Using German SOEP data, 1999 - 2009, this study analyzes state dependence in low-wage employment of western German … stones out of unemployment and are to be preferred to staying unemployed and waiting for a better job. …

This study analyzes state dependence in low-wage employment of western German women using GSOEP data, 2000-2006. We … that for women low-wage jobs can serve as stepping stones out of unemployment and are to be preferred to staying unemployed …

employment. Family policies that subsidize childcare and increase its availability have different effects on female labor supply … may depend on countryspecific pre-reform female employment and earnings, and childcare availability, costs, and quality. …

worsening of unemployment conditions (discouraged worker effect). We find that married women whose husbands are unemployed or … likely to increase their labor force participation. However, a worsening of overall unemployment conditions appears to have a … discouraging effect on wives' labor supply response, wives tend to decrease their labor participation when unemployment rate in …

worsening of unemployment conditions (discouraged worker effect). We find that married women whose husbands are unemployed or … likely to increase their labor force participation. However, a worsening of overall unemployment conditions appears to have a … discouraging effect on wives' labor supply response, wives tend to decrease their labor participation when unemployment rate in …

Economic theory suggests that growth may improve gender equality directly by raising women's employment and indirectly …. This paper argues that growth in India has not substantially improved gender equality because it has not sufficiently … activated either of these mechanisms. I analyze structural changes from 1982/83 to 2011/12 to show that India's high-growth …