This chapter surveys the literature on the gender wage gap in developed countries. The
overarching goals are to provide an overview of the gender wage gap, to examine the extent …

In this paper we investigate how career considerations may affect fertility decisions in the
presence of a temporary employment shock. We compare the birth rates of women …

We compare men and women who are displaced from similar jobs by applying an event
study design combined with propensity score matching and reweighting to administrative …

This paper studies whether women and men cope with job loss differently. Using 2006-2017
Dutch administrative monthly microdata and a quasi-experimental empirical design …

We examined motivation and behaviors in women's active job search in Spain and the
gender gap in this process. The current crisis in Spain and the increase in the number of …

This paper takes a labor supply perspective (neoclassical labor supply, job search) to
explain the lower employment rates of older workers and women. The basic rationale is that …

We study whether women and men cope with job loss differently, focusing on the importance
of workers' job flexibility and household setting. Our empirical analysis is based on Dutch …

This study investigates whether and when during the life cycle women fall behind in terms of
career progression because of children. We use 1987–1997 Norwegian panel data that …

I examine the effect of a woman-friendly occupation on employment by exploring a unique
historical setting–the postmaster occupation during the early twentieth-century United …

This paper studies the impact of China's state-owned enterprise (SOE) reform, which
resulted in more than 35 million layoffs in the 1990s, on gender inequality across the life …