This article documents life-cycle gender differences in labor market outcomes using longitudinal data of a cohort individuals from the National Longitudinal Survey Youth 1979. As other datasets, earnings gap increases with age.

This paper econometrically analyzes the relationship between public spending and gendered urban employment in China for the period 1999-2009. Proponents of gender-sensitive public policies suggest that spending on healthcare and education may increase long-run growth and women’s relative employment via the expansion of paid care work (increasing labor demand) and reductions in unpaid labor (inc...

Fertility has fallen to extremely low levels in Europe, prompting some to argue that we are on the brink of a ‘demographic crisis’ that will have serious societal consequences. There is also a parallel need to strengthen the labour force and increase productivity, materialized in the Lisbon Strategy to increase women’s employment to 60 percent across Europe by 2010. These dual concerns prompted...

The objective is to analyze the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on dynamics Mexican labor market (formal-informal employment) by gender. It built consistent micro-founded time-series from 1987:Q1 2019:Q4 using urban employment surveys and estimate a VAR model linking aggregate production each segment. Our results suggest significant adverse effects formal resulting pandemic, with lengthy job recove...

This research seeks to quantify the extent that discrimination can explain the gender wage gap in the Philippine labor market. Today, it is fairly well established that women trail behind men in many domains in developing countries, and that this can potentially have far-reaching impacts on human and economic development. On average, women earn significantly less than men in the Philippines. It...

All rights reserved. Short sections of text, not to exceed two paragraphs, may be quoted without explicit permission, provided that full credit including © notice is given to the source. Abstract Scholars interested in race inequality have been particularly attracted to network accounts of the stratifying effects of social networks in the labor market. A recurring theme in policy‐oriented resea...

Objective: Many studies in labor market analysis have established significant gender differences in labor market behavior. Differences in prevalence rates of various types of mental disorders by gender are also well established. Little is known, however, about gender differences in the labor market effects of specific mental illnesses. Methods: Using a sample of 2210 men and 2362 women between ...

this study aimed at identifying required competencies for the labor market by the graduates majoring in the agricultural extension education field. the study population included undergraduates, faculty members, and employers, as related to bachelor level in three extension and education departments at bu ali sina, tehran, and shiraz universities of iran. the study has employed both quantitative...

This study examines, empirically, the influence of household structure on labor market participation in Nigeria. The study made use of the data collected by the defunct National Manpower Board in 2005 in the Nigerian Labor Market Survey conducted that year. The study establishes the relative importance of the household structure in influencing labor force participation of household members whil...