Gendered laws and women in the workforce

Marie Hyland, Simeon Djankov and Pinelopi Goldberg

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Abstract: This paper offers for the first time a global picture of gender discrimination by the law as it affects women's economic opportunity and charts the evolution of legal inequalities over five decades. Using the World Bank's newly constructed "Women, Business and the Law" database, we document large and persistent gender inequalities, especially with regard to pay and treatment of parenthood. We find positive correlations between more equal laws pertaining to women in the workforce and more equal labor market outcomes, such as higher female labor force participation and a smaller wage gap between men and women.

JEL-codes: D63 J16 J31 J71 J78 K31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2020-05-31
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Journal Article: Gendered Laws and Women in the Workforce (2020)
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