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 …

Widespread economic recessions and protracted financial crises have been documented as setting back gender equality and … place outside the strict boundaries of the market. The paper also makes this point: examined through the prism of gender … and international levels end up aggravating inequities, gender equality processes face many more barriers, especially …

look at the causal effect of maternity and paternity on LFP separately, the data is disaggregated by gender. To this end … gender of parents. These two pieces of evidence precisely map onto the theoretical predictions made by the related mainstream …

We study the impact of selection bias on estimates of the gender pay gap, focusing on whether the gender pay gap has … find robust evidence that, after controlling for selection, there were large declines in the raw and the unexplained gender … and actual labor market experience. However, we note that substantial gender wage gaps remain. In 2015, at the median, the …

world, but less evidence of improvements in the gender wage gap. Using an instrumental variables strategy that relies on … and growth. Our findings are among the few that show some movement toward improvements in the gender wage gap in a …

This paper investigates gender inequality in vulnerable employment: forms of employment typically featuring high … from developing countries, we measure long-term trends, describe geographical patterns, and estimate correlates of gender … gender gap. Across countries, the gender gap is smaller in richer countries, with lower fertility rates, and more …

in reducing gender gap in employment. …

affected by each factor. I find that the gender gap in the Employment to Nonparticipation (E to N) transition rates is twice as …

progress in narrowing the employment gender gap. …