-known effects on gender gaps in employment and earnings. We use an event study approach with retrospective data for 29 countries … into self-employment. Overall, our results suggest relevant changes in the allocation of talent caused by gender …

, however, has declined from 1990 and reached the natural range in 2007. This paper studies over-time changes in child gender … decisions. We find that child gender discrimination on the “intensive” margin (parental inputs) is diminishing after … private education, have mothers with fewer hours of labor supply, and spend less time on household chores. These gender gaps …

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 … in fertility. The gender gap in wages, after controlling for worker and job characteristics as well as for selection, is …

Using detailed employee-employer administrative data, we analyze the impact of the gender pay gap on the performance of … firms and find that it depends on the presence of labor unions. When the firm is not unionized, the gender pay gap reduces … profitability. In contrast, when unions are present, the gender gap has no effect on profitability in male-dominated firms and …

We develop an equilibrium model of the labor market to investigate the joint evolution of gender gaps in labor force …, especially college-educated women. Consistent with these results, we see a widening of the gender wage gap at the lower end of …. The growth of appliances acted to widen the gender wage gap and the decline of fertility to narrow it. We also trace …