empirically investigate the dynamics and drivers of gender gaps in employment rates, wages and workhours during the pandemic … experienced a major decline in their employment rate and workhours, as well as gender segregation in the most affected industries …. Relying on Estonian Labour Force Survey data, we document that the pandemic has, if anything, reduced gender inequality in all …

part of the gender earnings gap and mitigate high female propensity to self-employment. Our findings suggest that policies …Persistent gender gaps characterize labor markets in many African countries. Utilizing Eswatini's first three labor … market surveys (conducted in 2007, 2010, and 2013), this paper provides first systematic evidence on the country's gender …

This paper analyses the impact of trade liberalization on local labour markets in Ethiopia, with a focus on the gender … dimension of employment. By exploiting rich micro-level data on Ethiopian workers, we evaluate the effect of the Ethiopian trade … reforms on the changes and composition of employment, adopting as unit of analysis Ethiopian districts. We find that districts …

as others, irrespective of gender and spousal employment. Third, single-parent essential workers experience relatively …We examine whether the COVID-19 crisis affects women and men differently in terms of employment, working hours and …

We investigate the trend in the gender employment gap in the expanding nonsubsistence sector of the economy in … Mozambique, a country still characterized by a large subsistence agricultural sector. We show evidence that the gender gap has … conditional employment probabilities of married women, as compared with men, is the other factor. These findings point at …

the unemployment rate. Gender impact was noticeable especially in the employment decrease periods. For data after the year …Discrimination based on gender is commonly observed on labor markets, although its scale and symptoms are different … with regard to country and are subject to changes over time. Gender-related diverse flows on the labor market constitute …

part of the gender earnings gap and mitigate high female propensity to self-employment. Our findings suggest that policies …Persistent gender gaps characterize labor markets in many African countries. Utilizing Eswatini's first three labor … market surveys (conducted in 2007, 2010, and 2013), this paper provides first systematic evidence on the country's gender …

and a multi-sector environment accounts well for gender and overall employment polarization. The model also accounts for …We document that U.S. employment polarization in the 1980-2008 period is largely generated by women. Female employment … graph, while male employment shares decrease in a more similar fashion along the whole skill distribution. We show that a …

educational attainment or skills. Gender is a further dimension in which the impacts of trade liberalization can differ. In a … globalizing world it is important to understand whether and how trade policy can contribute toward enhancing gender convergence in …

in reducing gender gap in employment. … education, we find a large and positive effect of tertiary education on employment. It confirms the important role of education …