This paper offers for the first time a global picture of gender discrimination by the law as it affects women … Women, Business and the Law database, the paper documents large and persistent gender inequalities, especially with regard …

male and female workers in West Germany. The analysis distinguishes different types of career absence: unemployment …. Unemployment decreases wages in the short term only, and for women more strongly than for men. Maternity leave leads to substantial …

chances of employment. Patients were compared with the general population. Patients (N=314) were classified by type of surgery …. Controls (N=1165) consisted of a 10% random sample drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel. Chances of full- time employment … decreased as disease severity increased. Chances of part- time and minor employment were higher in patients than among controls …

empirically investigate the dynamics and drivers of gender gaps in employment rates, wages and workhours during the pandemic … experienced a major decline in their employment rate and workhours, as well as gender segregation in the most affected industries …. Relying on Estonian Labour Force Survey data, we document that the pandemic has, if anything, reduced gender inequality in all …