We assess whether motherhood could be the last hurdle to achieving gender equality in developing countries by exploring … the link between motherhood and the overall gender gap in the labor market for 14 Latin American countries over the last … the first child, we find that the arrival of the first child leads to a sharp and persistent 35% decline in mothers …

gender gap among full-time working parents, using the American Time Use Survey for the years 2003-2019. Our analysis reveals … that temporal flexibility has a U-shaped relationship with the wage rates of both fathers and mothers, and that temporal …

could be argued that the policy did, indirectly, have a positive impact on gender equality in the labor market and, possibly …

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 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 …

Gender disparities in wages among professionals exist because women begin their professional careers making less than … inequality, we examine if trial employment affects initial salaries by providing employers a first-hand look at candidates prior … discount dissipates when offers are received from employers where trial employment takes place …

formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … different gender identity prescriptions of family breadwinning. We use data for three periods between 1984 and 2016 from the … since reunification, converging to the more gender-egalitarian East Germany. Our work emphasizes the view that political and …

May of 2020. We document large employment losses during the lockdown, especially in "quarantined" sectors and non …-essential sectors that do not allow for remote work. Employment losses were mostly temporary, and hit lower-educated workers … crisis appears to have increased gender inequalities in both paid and unpaid work in the short-term. …