During the last decades, important policies have been implemented to incorporate women into the labor market and reduce … hypothetic scenarios: a proxy to childcare availability policy and an increase in women’s relative wages. We found that … allocated to housework and paid work. Moreover, we found that increasing women’s bargaining power in wage terms could produce …

In the late 1990s, China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) underwent dramatic labor retrenchment, drawing considerable … attention to how women fared relative to men during the retrenchment process. However, almost all the existing studies on the …