This paper examines how worker skills and job application behavior contribute to the gender wage gap on a major online … freelancing platform. We observe significant occupational sorting by gender, with women over-represented in lower-paying project … categories and tending to earn less than men even within the same categories. The unexplained gender wage gap conditional on …

This paper investigates the relationship between the gender wage gap, the choice of training occupation, and … persistent gender wage gap over experience, the gap has decreased over time. Second, in the lower part of the wage distribution … distribution. We conclude that occupational mobility has reduced the gender wage gap, but lock{in effects are still stronger for …

We investigate the extent to which complementarities between technical and business skills of founders and employees … complementarities between technical and business skills within the group of founders, but that there are significant complementarities … between technically trained founders and employees who have business skills. This suggests that the innovation potential of …

labour market. Human capital investments are sunk and necessary, because firms need new skills while older skills get …