. Specifically, we ask if a student benefits by learning from a teacher of her same gender. Unlike the existing literature which … explains such interaction through role model effect or Pygmalion effect, we explain such interaction in terms of gender based … positive gender matching effect only for urban, private schools. We find support for our theoretical predictions when we test …

document the persistence and transmission of the Soviet unconventional gender norms, both vertically across generations of … infancy, are significantly more likely than natives and other immigrants to major in STEM in high school. In tertiary … education, they remain over-represented in STEM, but also differ significantly from other women by their specific avoidance of …

This article examines the relationship between gender, forms of employment and dimensions of precarious employment in … feminization of employment norms characterized by both continuity and change in the social relations of gender …

Gender differences in the labor market can be better understood by looking at specific trends within and between each … gender group. In this paper, we look specifically at income inequalities that exist between certain segments of the male and … female labor force in addition to examining inequalities that exist within each gender group. Dividing male and female …

Wage decompositions suggest that a large share of the gender wage gap can be explained by differences in occupation and … alleviate the gender gap. We test this hypothesis by examining the impact of the 2011 Pay Transparency Law in Austria, which … Austrian job board with social security spells that record the gender of new hires. To compare the pay level of vacancies …

driving the gender wage gap, in particular compensating wage differentials. These results inform an analysis of sex pay … significant determinant of the gender wage gap. Taste-based discrimination mechanisms appear to be significant as well, but small …

In this paper we provide first systematic evidence on the gender disparities in the labor market in Swaziland, drawing …

In this issue of the ILR Review, the first five articles provide important new evidence on gender and employment. The … theme is gender and labor market outcomes, the Editors felt that creating a symposium out of this new body of work would … serve the research community studying gender, as well as the policymakers concerned with gender and labor market outcomes …

Wage decompositions suggest that a large share of the gender wage gap can be explained by differences in occupation and … alleviate the gender gap. We test this hypothesis by examining the impact of the 2011 Pay Transparency Law in Austria, which … Austrian job board with social security spells that record the gender of new hires. To compare the pay level of vacancies …

employment and wages between the mid-2000s and the late-2010s emphasizing the gender dimension from the viewpoint of the task … there was a modest reduction in the gender wage gap, the decline was stronger in computer-intensive occupations. …