the bottom of the wage distribution. -- gender wage gap ; education ; counterfactual distributions ; decompositions …This paper studies the gender wage gap by educational attainment in Italy using the 1994-2001 ECHP data. We estimate …. Then, we decompose the gender wage gap across all the wage distribution and isolate the part due to gender differences in …

We analyse gender wage inequalities in Italy in the mid-1990s and in the mid-2000s. In this period important labour … gender wage gap by estimating wage distributions in the presence of covariates and sample selection and by counterfactual … microsimulations. We find that women swam against the tide: whilst the trend in female qualifications slightly reduced the gender wage …

Sizeable gender differences in employment rates are observed in many countries. Sample selection into the workforce … might therefore be a relevant issue when estimating gender wage gaps. This paper proposes a new semi-parametric estimator of … counterfactual comparisons of densities. The proposed methodology is used to investigate the gender wage gap in Italy. It is found …