Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women … consistent with low gender wage gaps simply because low-wage women would not feature in the observed wage distribution. We … explore this idea across the US and EU countries estimating gender gaps in potential wages. We recover information on wages …