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31 IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17118

Female Employment and Structural Transformation

Moritz Kuhn, Iourii Manovskii, Xincheng Qiu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15453

Female Labor Market Opportunities and Gender Gaps in Aspirations

Teresa Molina, Emiko Usui

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023, 211, 165-187

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14548

Too Family Friendly? The Consequences of Parent Part-Time Working Rights

Daniel Fernández-Kranz, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 197, 104407

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14261

Gender, Selection into Employment, and the Wage Impact of Immigration

George J. Borjas, Anthony Edo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13996

Is Son Preference Disappearing from Bangladesh?

Niaz Asadullah, Nazia Mansoor, Teresa Randazzo, Zaki Wahhaj

published in: World Development, 2021, 140, 105353

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13608

Import Competition and Gender Differences in Labor Reallocation

Hani Mansour, Pamela Medina, Andrea Velasquez

published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 76, 102149.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13544

Subsidizing Domestic Services as a Tool to Fight Unemployment: Effectiveness and Hidden Costs

Elisabeth Leduc, Ilan Tojerow

published as 'Home work: Exploring the labor market effects of subsidizing domestic services' in: Labour Economics, 2024, 90, 102595

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12923

Does the Added Worker Effect Matter?

Nezih Guner, Yuliya Kulikova, Arnau Valladares-Esteban

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12888

Employment vs. Homestay and the Happiness of Women in the South Caucasus

Karine Torosyan, Norberto Pignatti

published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2022, 23, 4027-4071

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12857

International Labor Market Competition and Spousal Labor Supply Responses

Pal Schone, Marte Strom

published in: Labour Economics, 2021, 70, 101983

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12595

The Intergenerational Correlation of Employment: Is There a Role for Work Culture?

Gabriela Galassi, David Koll, Lukas Mayr

published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 90, 102596

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12371

Culture, Gender, and Math: A Revisitation

Brindusa Anghel, Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

significantly revised version published as 'Gender Equality and the Math Gender Gap' in: Economics of Education Review. 2020, 79, 102064

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12099

Female Leadership and Gender Gap within Firms: Evidence from an Italian Board Reform

Agata Maida, Andrea Weber

published in: ILR Review, 2022, 75 (2), 488-515

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9659

The Evolution of Gender Gaps in Industrialized Countries

Claudia Olivetti, Barbara Petrongolo

published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2016, 8, 405-434.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8719

Beer, Wood, and Welfare

Michael Grimm, Jörg Peters

published in: PLoS ONE, 2015, 10 (8), e0132603

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8189

Labor Market Deregulation and Female Employment: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Japan

Takao Kato, Naomi Kodama

revised version published as 'Deregulating Overtime Hours Restrictions on Women and Its Effects on Female Employment: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Japan' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (4), 804-821

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7509

Can Parents' Right to Work Part-Time Hurt Childbearing-Aged Women? A Natural Experiment with Administrative Data

Daniel Fernández-Kranz, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

substantially revised version published as 'Too Family Friendly? The Consequences of Parents' Right to Request Part-Time Work' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 197, 104407

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7254

The Labor Market Behavior of Married Women with Young Children in the U.S.: Have Differences by Religion Disappeared?

Evelyn L. Lehrer, Yu Chen

published in Keister, L. and Sherkat, D. (eds.): Religion and Inequality in America - Research and Theory on Religion's Role in Stratification. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6933

For Some Mothers More Than Others: How Children Matter for Labour Market Outcomes When Both Fertility and Female Employment Are Low

Krzysztof Karbownik, Michal Myck

revised version published in: Economics of Transition, 2016, 24(4), 705-725

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6663

The Impact of Female Employment on Male Wages and Careers: Evidence from the English Banking Industry, 1890-1941

Andrew Seltzer

published in: Economic History Review, 66, 4 (2013), 1039–1062.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5918

Exploring the Impacts of Public Childcare on Mothers and Children in Italy: Does Rationing Play a Role?

Ylenia Brilli, Daniela Del Boca, Chiara D. Pronzato

published as 'Does Child Care Availability Play a Role in Maternal Employment and Children's Development? Evidence from Italy' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2016 ,14(1), 27-51

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4568

Female Hires and the Success of Start-up Firms

Andrea Weber, Christine Zulehner

published in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (2), 358-361

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4550

Dynamic Female Labor Supply

Zvi Eckstein, Osnat Lifshitz

published in: Econometrica, 2011, 79 (6), 1675–1726

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4526

Competition and Gender Prejudice: Are Discriminatory Employers Doomed to Fail?

Andrea Weber, Christine Zulehner

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2014, 12(2), 492-521