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 …

Progress towards equal pay is elusive. This article reviews debates on and prescribed
remedies for gender pay equality over the past 40 years of equal pay policy. It looks at pay …

This article sets out to investigate how flexitime and teleworking can help women maintain
their careers after childbirth. Despite the increased number of women in the labour market in …

In 1990, the US had the sixth highest female labor participation rate among 22 OECD
countries. By 2010 its rank had fallen to seventeenth. We find that the expansion of “family …

Most labor economics textbooks pay little attention to actual labor markets, taking as
reference a perfectly competitive market in which losing a job is not a big deal. The …

Could robotization make the gender pay gap worse? We provide the first large-scale
evidence on the impact of industrial robots on the gender pay gap using data from 20 …

Looks at the three main components of work-family policy packages-childcare services,
flexible working patterns and entitlements to leave from work in order to care-across EU15 …

In recent decades, American workers have faced a rising college premium, a narrowing
gender gap, and increasing wage volatility. This paper explores the quantitative and welfare …

The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men
and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of …

In this paper I attempt to problematize dominant discourses of social mobility. There is a long
history of problematizing social mobility, as the John Lennon lyrics above and the RH …