most of the related literature, our model fully relies on statistical discrimination. If firms believe that women will quit …

the selection bias is included for the group of less educated women. The Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition is then implemented … lower wages for women at the bottom of the distribution due to their prospects of lower job stability, a phenomenon that we …

departments, according to the rankings available on the Econphd.net website. We document that women are unevenly distributed … the probability that a woman chooses a given field is positively related to the share of women in that field (path …-dependence), and that the share of women in a field at a given department increases with the sizes of the department and field, while …

features, possibly related to women´s lower labour mobility due to housework, fit better with our results than other theories …