to relate growth to the relative employment of women and, also, suggest simulations for Morocco. Both approaches lead to …The present paper sheds new light on the growth implications of gender inequalities in the Moroccan labour market. We … one of the rare attempts to elicit the growth potential of a reduction in the employment gap in a low-income country. …

This study seeks to determine the effect on the gender employment gap and women's employment of the extension of … extensions of maternity leave and the gender employment gap in Viet Nam. The findings show that, on average, the new law did not … exacerbate the gender employment gap, and there was a narrowing of the gap in the formal jobs sector compared to the waged jobs …

We investigate the causes of the gender disparity in labour market participation in Ethiopia using iterative …

for low female work participation. The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) Employment Unemployment Survey (EUS) unit … market participation through gender lens. Results show that women’s education has a U-shaped relationship with paid work …

This paper investigates the evolution of the gender wage gap in South Africa, using the 1993-2015 Post-Apartheid Labour …-paying industries However, the median gender wage gap is substantial at 23-35 per cent. This is unexplained by differences in human …

In the last decades the US economy experienced a rise in female labor force participation, a reversal of the gender … education gap and a closing of the gender wage gap. Importantly, these changes occurred at a substantially different pace over …. Given the observed US technical change process, the model replicates (1) over half of the narrowing gender wage gap, (2 …

We document recent trends in gender equality in employment and wages in Spain. Despite an impressive decline in the … gender gap in employment, females are still less likely to work than males: about 76 % of working age males and 63 % of … contracts. The large increase in female employment, from 28 % in 1977 to 63 % in 2010, was accompanied by a significant decline …

Job loss leads to persistent adverse labor market outcomes, but assessments of gender differences in labor market … recovery are lacking. We utilize plant closures in Denmark to estimate gender gaps in labor market outcomes and document that … displacement. When accounting for observable differences in human Capital across men and women, half of the gender gap in …

and child-rearing - a critical omission when analyzing gender differences in earnings. This paper constructs a better … can be generated using commonly available data on labor force participation rates by age and gender to gauge the … underestimate the contribution of gender differences in work experience in explaining the gender wage gap. …

research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …