Women's reproductive health and economic activity: A narrative review

JE Finlay - World Development, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper provides a narrative review of the literature that addresses the connection
between women's reproductive health and women's economic activity. Women's …

From 'MeToo'to Boko Haram: A survey of levels and trends of gender inequality in the world

S Klasen - World Development, 2020 - Elsevier
This survey argues that after decades of seemingly continuous progress in reducing gender
inequality in developing and developed countries, since about 2000, there has been an …

What explains uneven female labor force participation levels and trends in developing countries?

S Klasen - The World Bank Research Observer, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Rapid fertility decline, a strong expansion of female education, and favorable economic
conditions should have promoted female labor force participation in developing countries …

Women and STEM

S Kahn, D Ginther - 2017 - nber.org
Researchers from economics, sociology, psychology, and other disciplines have studied the
persistent under-representation of women in science, technology, engineering, and …

His and her earnings following parenthood in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom

K Musick, MD Bea… - American Sociological …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This article advances a couple-level framework to examine how parenthood shapes within-
family gender inequality by education in three countries that vary in their normative and …

The evolving impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on gender inequality in the US labor market: The COVID motherhood penalty

KA Couch, RW Fairlie, H Xu - Economic Inquiry, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
We explore whether COVID‐19 disproportionately affected women in the labor market using
Current Population Survey data through the end of 2020. We find that male–female gaps in …

Does it pay to be green? An exploratory analysis of wage differentials between green and non-green industries

M Jackman, W Moore - Journal of Economics and Development, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper investigates the potential wage impacts of a shift to more
environmentally sustainable production patterns. Design/methodology/approach The …

Short-run effects of COVID-19 on US worker transitions

BW Cowan - 2020 - nber.org
ABSTRACT I use Current Population Survey Data from February and April 2020 to examine
how individual workers have transitioned between labor-market states and which workers …

[HTML][HTML] Gender and vulnerable employment in the developing world: Evidence from global microdata

MCL Bue, TTN Le, MS Silva, K Sen - World Development, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper investigates gender inequality in vulnerable employment: forms of employment
typically featuring high precariousness, inadequate earnings, and lack of decent working …

[HTML][HTML] Early gender gaps among university graduates

M Francesconi, M Parey - European economic review, 2018 - Elsevier
We use data from six cohorts of university graduates in Germany to assess the extent of
gender gaps in college and labor market performance twelve to eighteen months after …