Both academia and policymakers express a strong belief in higher average education levels exerting a narrowing impact … on wage inequality in general and gender wage gaps in particular. The present paper scrutinizes whether or not this … not suffice to narrow the gender wage gap in the advanced parts of the economy and, hence, not also the overall gender …

The paper compares the gender wage differentials of two occupation groups - innovation and non-innovation workers … unconditional quantile regression techniques to identify key factors underlying the gender wage gaps observed along the whole wage … insights. We find conspicuous differences in average gender wage gaps, in gender wage-gap profiles across the wage distribution …

We study the impact of performance-related pay (PRP) on gender wage differences using Finnish linked employer … increase gender wage differentials. Thus, the nature of a performance related pay plan is important for gauging the impact of … PRP on gender wage differentials. A comparison with OLS results shows the importance of controlling for unobserved person …

-innovation workers. In a second step, this analysis is broken down by gender. We apply a decomposition method based on unconditional …. Also the sources underlying these wage differentials vary between the countries. The levels and profiles of the gender wage …, when it comes to the major sources contributing to these gender wage gaps, the results are strikingly similar across …