The pattern of joining the labor force only at an advanced stage of the life-cycle was widespread among American women … interrelation between women's lifetime labor supply choices and the dynamic macroeconomic environment. In our model women choose the …. As the economy grows, this lifetime labor profile vanishes and women either join the labor force either early in life or …

The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond … large and comparable data sets or to conventional approaches that limit the possibilities to compare men and women. …

countries and whether and how the policies affect women's labor market outcomes, their own and children's health, and child … development. The leave policies can also influence women's fertility choices, as well as household specialization and husbands …

using external information and characterize biases arising from selection in treatment timing. We find that women time … fertility as their earnings profile flattens. The implication of this is that the event-study overestimates women's earnings …

using external information and characterize biases arising from selection in treatment timing. We find that women time … fertility as their earnings profile flattens. The implication of this is that the event-study overestimates women's earnings …

, Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico shows that: (i) women provide the vast majority of family LTC; (ii) consistently across … countries, women who provide LTC are less likely to work, and those who do work less hours per week and have a double burden of ….42 percentage points) and a reduction in the number of hours worked among women ages 50–64 who remain employed (by 7.03%). This …

The focus of this paper is on the effects of the Great Recession on young women's labour supply decision. Given the … part of this paper we focus on the Spanish labour market and estimate women's labour supply models by age groups, with a … special focus on those aged 20 to 29 and 30 to 39 to detect how young women living in couples show different labour supply …

simply basing the analysis on a static association between women's observed participation status and men's observed … unemployment status in the survey period, we explore whether there is a dynamic relationship between transitions of women and men … shock on labor market transition probability for the overall sample as well as for different groups of women, and hence …