We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during … regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …. Four different patterns emerge: 1) a positive and increasing contribution of education upon within-levels wage inequality …

This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist … countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender pay gap has not exhibited, in general …, an upward tendency over the transitional period to which available data relate. Most of the gender pay gap is ascribed to …

For many years the NHS has been subject to allegations that gender and racial discrimination are a feature of the … simultaneous model is then developed which has important consequences for estimates of the influence of gender, ethnicity, training … and career interruptions. We find evidence of significant differences in speed of promotion between gender and ethnic …

determination and the gender salary gap in the academic labour market drawing upon a particularly detailed data set of 900 academics … from five traditional Scottish Universities. Results reveal an aggregate gender salary differential for academic staff of …. The dominant contribution of rank to both the determination of female academic salaries and the gender salary gap suggests …

We estimate the relationship between wages and occupational gender segregation in Sweden. Because of high wage equality … supports this hypothesis. We also investigate how the unexplained gender wage gap vary across occupations and find that this …

This paper examines the hypothesis that the gender salary gap observed in the academic labour market is predominantly …

Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this paper examines the role of gender in the promotion …. Specifically, how do the factors related to promotion differ for men and women? How do gender differences in promotion translate … into differences in subsequent wage growth? To what extent does the promotions gap contribute to the gender wage gap? In …

We present a theoretical explanation of the gender wage gap which turns on the interaction between men and women in … only at strictly lower wages than men. The model developed predicts a gap even controlling for education, occupation and … industry of workers and does so in a competitive labor market where there exist no inherent gender differences. We test our …