differential in Europe is 12.2 percent and gender differences in job preferences are associated with a 1.3 percentage point …The gender wage gap has declined in magnitude over time; however, the gap that remains is largely unexplained due to … gender convergence in key wage determining characteristics. In this paper we show that the degree of gender convergence …

Could robotization make the gender pay gap worse? We provide the first large-scale evidence on the impact of industrial … robots on the gender pay gap using data from 20 European countries. We show that robot adoption increases both male and … female earnings but also increases the gender pay gap. Using an instrumental variable strategy, we find that a ten percent …

Using detailed data from a unique survey of high school graduates in Germany, we document a gender gap in expected full …

This paper estimates the raw and adjusted gender pay gap in Ireland between 2011 and 2018, a period of austerity … show that the raw gender wage gap across the wage distribution has not changed much over this period: it is larger for … relative contributions of explained and unexplained components to the overall gender wage gap at each point at the wage …

This paper explores how non-college occupations contributed to the gender gap in college enrollment, where women …

This paper surveys gender earnings gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent … the first to the second period but remained almost unchanged between the second and the third. The gender earnings gap … the extremes, possibly due to a gender-equalizing effect of the minimum wage. Moreover, the gap is more pronounced for low …

Wage decompositions suggest that a large share of the gender wage gap can be explained by differences in occupation and … alleviate the gender gap. We test this hypothesis by examining the impact of the 2011 Pay Transparency Law in Austria, which … Austrian job board with social security spells that record the gender of new hires. To compare the pay level of vacancies …

Laboratory experiments involving a real effort task are conducted to examine the importance of gender differences in … competition aversion for generating gender wage gaps. Cross-subject design treatment and control experiments suggest that gender … differences in risk aversion play no significant role in competitive (tournament) vs. piece-rate job choices and consequent gender …

on gender differences in applied-for jobs for the broader labor market. Across a range of job characteristics, we find … large gender gaps in the share of applications going to different types of jobs even among observationally similar men and … women. In a standard decomposition, gender differences in applications can explain more than 70 percent of the residual …

Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay … gap remains. This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the gender wage gap, with an emphasis on … developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends in the gender differences in wages and employment rates. We then …