The four essays collected in this volume aim is to shed some light on specific aspect in which women are discriminated … using a very large and representative dataset. Chapter three investigates how the increased return on investment on women in …

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 …