(less than a week) and low-income independent contractors, which together have fueled earnings inequality. …

widespread job losses and a decrease in labor force participation. The unemployment rate had risen significantly, and the number … supply of labor, unemployment, and the heterogeneous effect of Covid on different groups and ages. On the other side, some …

social indicators, such as GDP growth, labour market outcomes, and poverty and inequality, for the period since the fall of … the FDI has induced. FDI inflows have also reduced unemployment and increased wages, but have had no effects on labour … productivity. Total FDI has had only limited effects on inequality and poverty, but FDI from Germany and Austria has been found to …

Analyzing gender gaps of unemployed job-seekers, this study uniquely complements the broad literature focussing … predominantly on gender gaps of employed workers. I consider a broad range of labor market outcomes, and disentangle the factors … importance. Married women and those with young children perform particularly bad compared to men. High unexplainable gender gaps …

This paper assesses gender differences in the effects of adverse conditions at labor-market entry in a developing … find that men who faced higher unemployment rates at ages 18-20 suffer a negative effect on employment at ages 27-30. In … labor market conditions are correlated to more egalitarian perceptions about gender roles later in life. …

marginalized castes, the probability of joblessness is about 10%. Lockdown is expected to have raised the economic inequality by … gender and needs commensurate interventions. …

Unemployment influences people’s life satisfaction beyond negative income shocks. A large body of literature … investigates these non-pecuniary costs of unemployment and stresses the importance of social identity and therefore social norms … experiment to compare unemployment-related life satisfaction losses between different cohorts of East and West German women. We …

Many countries remain far from achieving gender equality in the classroom. Using data from 126 countries, we … characterize the evolution of gender gaps in low- and middle-income countries between 1960 and 2010. We document five facts. First …, gender gaps widened as more boys went to school, then narrowed as girls enrolled; thus, gender gaps got worse before they got …

We present evidence on the role of the social environment for the development of gender differences in competitiveness … and earnings expectations. First, we document that the gender gap in competitiveness and earnings expectations is more … causally affects girls' willingness to compete and narrows both the gender gap in competitiveness as well as the gender gap in …

This paper studies the impact of services liberalization on education and the gender education gap at the district … number of years of schooling (positively) and the gender education gap (negatively). These effects are at least as relevant …