Despite significant improvement in female schooling over the last two decades, only a small proportion of women in … regression results show that even after accounting for human capital endowments, women are systematically less likely to … significant and negative effect on women's participation in paid work. We do not find any evidence that purdah norm variable …

Despite significant improvement in female schooling over the last two decades, only a small proportion of women in … regression results show that even after accounting for human capital endowments, women are systematically less likely to … significant and negative effect on women's participation in paid work. We do not find any evidence that purdah norm variable …

The main objective of this article is to analyse women’s and men’s relationships with work, especially with the labour … continuing inequality between women and men and the slow progress being made in achieving real equality. It then considers …

This paper analyses the difference in short-term employment recovery between young men and women in India, Peru and … whether - and to what extent commonly suggested mechanisms are responsible for a relatively slower recovery among young women …

What are the effects on the labor market and aggregate income of frictions that restrict women's labor decisions that … impede labor participation and composition being equal between men and women? To answer this question, I develop an … increase by 4.3% without women's restrictions to entrepreneurship and by 32.1% without restrictions to entry and …

percent working to the disadvantage of women. If we assume that the dominant role in family- and child-care is taken up by the … company characteristics nor by the dominant role of women in care for the household and children and could actually be due to … wage discrimination against women …

of women and men in urban India. In particular, we investigate the extent to which education contributes to women … differential is explained by men and women's differential educational endowments or by labour market discrimination. …