equally effective tools for reducing non-employment. However, non-employment among women with young children is more …

An emerging literature highlights the importance of empowering women. Female decision-making power is typically …

employment and earnings of women, there is little evidence focusing on the post-communist region. This paper exploits the latest … employment in Mongolia in 2016. We examine the availability of childcare, social norms and attitudes towards women, as well as … relative to women with no small children. In particular, women with two children aged one to six years are 21.5 percentage …

employment and earnings of women, there is little evidence focusing on the post-communist region. This paper exploits the latest … towards women, as well as household decision-making as potential explanations. We find that small children decrease the … probability of female employment relative to women with no small children. In particular, women with two children aged one to six …

Using data from the 2011 and 2016 Life in Kyrgyzstan surveys, we examine Kyrgyz women's labour supply elasticities at … the extensive margin. We use Heckman's two-step approach to predict earnings for the non-participating women and then use … these predictions to estimate the participation equation. We find that women's labour supply decision is not influenced by …

childcare industry, this paper examines whether college-educated native women respond to immigrant-induced lower cost and … among women who are most likely to consider childcare costs when making fertility decisions - namely, married women with a … graduate degree. Given that women also respond to immigrant inflows by working long hours, the paper ends with an analysis of …