Events and courses

Webinar

Joint ILO-WTO Webinar on Gender, trade and labour market outcomes in Covid times

The Webinar will bring together academics, experts from international organisations, including from the WTO and ILO to discuss gender, trade and labour market outcomes with a specific emphasis on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected employment, wages and other decent work indicators and on how trade can help make the recovery more inclusive.

ILO Research Department Webinar

Knowledge Intensity and Gender Wage Gaps: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Do knowledge intensive jobs exhibit lower gender gaps in wages? Here we use a linked employer-employee dataset of the entire Brazilian formal labour force to study the relationship between gender wage gaps and the knowledge intensity of industries and occupations.

ILO Research Department Webinar

Gender and the labour market in Viet Nam

An analysis based on the Viet Nam Labour Force Survey

ILO Research Department Seminar

The partner Pay Gap

Despite women's recent gains in education and employment, husbands still tend to out-earn their wives. This article examines the relationship between the partner pay gap, i.e. the difference in earned income between married, co-resident partners, and life satisfaction. Contrary to previous studies, we investigate the effects of recent changes in relative earnings within couples as well as labour market transitions. Using seven waves of the UK Household Longitudinal Study, we reveal that men exhibit an increase in life satisfaction in response to a recent increase in their proportional earnings while women, after accounting for employment changes, exhibit a decrease in life satisfaction. We also find secondary-earning husbands report lower average life satisfaction than primary-earning men, while such differences were not found for women. The analysis offers compelling evidence of the role of gendered norms in the sustenance of the partner pay gap.

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