gap between highly educated (high-earning) and less-educated (low-earning) women. I exploit a major maternity leave … higher-earning women. Using the large differential changes in maternity leave benefits across education and income groups in … addition to demonstrating an up to 23% increase in the fertility of tertiary-educated women, I find a positive, statistically …

We consider the job progression of immigrant women in five European countries: France, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the UK … jobs held by women, using data from the O*Net. In particular, we focus on analytical and strength skills in immigrant …'s jobs and compare them to those required by jobs held by similar native women. Even though immigrants experience upon …

The life-cycle labor supply of women born at the turn of the 20th century diverged sharply from previous cohorts … find that the onset of the Great Depression led to a large increase in young women's labor force participation in 1930 via … through the 1940s and 1950s, suggesting a permanent impact of the Great Depression on women's lifecycle labor supply. …

Since the 1959 revolution, the Cuban state has committed to women's empowerment and enacted a series of laws and … policies to promote women's equal and active participation in all spheres of life. Sources agree that Cuba has made remarkable … progress towards women's economic empowerment and gender equality, notably thanks to the provision of universal and free …