Der Unterschied im Bruttostundenverdienst zwischen Frauen und Männern - der sogenannte Gender Pay Gap - verharrt unter … Rolle. Der Gender Pay Gap ist in ländlichen Gebieten besonders ausgeprägt (2006: 33 Prozent). Dagegen liegt er in …

Examines gender differences in poverty in eight industrialized countries: US, Canada, Australia, UK, Germany, Sweden …, Italy and the Netherlands. Results suggest that gender differences in human capital factors and family factors, as well as … religion, culture, and policy, all play a role in accounting for gender poverty gaps within and across countries. …

This paper culminates the work undertaken in a larger study on income and labor force status commissioned by USAID in …

This paper explores the influence of government employment on the gender gap in earnings in seven countries, using data … from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS). The size of the public sector and women's concentration in government employment … research on gender and the welfare state. …

This chapter presents a cross-national portrait of gender equality in the labor market in the early 1990s, based on … Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) data from fifteen countries. Cross-country comparisons are analyzed in the context of variation … empirical findings. In the next section, three central concerns about the meaning of gender equality in the labor market are …