This paper performs a meta-analysis of 1472 estimates extracted from 199 previous studies to investigate the gender … wage gap in China. The results show that, although the gender wage gap in China during the transition period has an impact … public sector. Furthermore, we found that, in China, the gender wage gap has been increasing rapidly in recent years. …

" (rather than a definition based on payment). Examining wage discrimination with respect to gender in Germany, we find that … gender wage discrimination is exacerbated if considered in such a framework, as women are faced not only with a lower …

The goal of this paper is to examine the patterns and movements of the gender pay gaps in the countries of the former …-analysis of this literature. Gender pay gaps in the region are considerable and above the levels observed in advanced economies …. Similar to advanced economies, industrial and occupational segregation widens the gaps in the FSU countries, whereas gender …

Recent studies from different countries suggest that the gender gap is not constant across the wage distribution and … data from official statistics, this study explores the gender wage-gap in Turkey across the wage distribution. The quantile … first is that the gender wage gap is more pronounced at the upper tail of the wage distribution, implying the existence of a …

In this paper, we estimate the gender pay gap along the wage distribution using a detailed decomposition approach based …

Using normalized regression equations, we propose an alternative estimator of industrial gender wage gaps which is … gender wage gaps after netting out wage differentials due to differences in characteristics and their coefficients between …

glass ceiling we mean the existence of a gender wage gap significantly more pronounced at the upper tail of the wage … attributes versus returns to these attributes shaping the gender wage gap. The quantile regression estimates and the … decomposition analyses consistently show that the gender wage gap is more pronounced at the upper tail of the wage distribution …

of gender equity. Based on data from the Household Budget Survey 2001/02, the present paper investigates gender pay … the difference in the earnings of the average man and the average woman are due to gender discrimination. A deeper … analysis using quantile regressions reveals that gender discrimination is a major explanation behind the gender pay gap in the …