differentials, focusing on the gender dimension in the U.S. during 1980-2010. Using instruments that exploit differential exposure … one-half of the level of, and trends in, the unexplained gender wage gap. Our results offer a reinterpretation of trends … in the gender wage gap, and suggest that standard wage decompositions are systematically misleading. …

accounts for selection bias issues. Our analysis shows that even though the gender wage gap is shrinking, gender discrimination …

A large body of empirical evidence documents the gender variation in labour market outcomes. A major factor that … contributes to persistent gender gaps in labour market performance is women's traditional role in the household. Child … a motherhood penalty. We highlight how the fundamental gender-driven career/family conflict faced by workers in the …

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of wage compression for the gender wage gap in Sweden during the … the changes in the returns to human capital and unobserved characteristics have contributed to reductions in the gender … mitigated and/or the gender gap in unobserved skills was reduced. Between 1981 and 1991 there is a small increase in the gender …

The overall gender wage gap fell from .31 to .15 between 1986 and 2003 following the transition to a free market in … fall in the gender wage gap. I test this implication using data from the Hungarian Wage and Earnings Survey covering 1986 … within-firm endowment-adjusted gender wage gap, making use of the fact that I am able to follow firms over time. The …

for the norm that “women and men shall have the right to equal pay for work of equal value”. We find that the gender wage … are less (not more) satisfied with life in liberal communities where the gender wage gap is smaller. These findings are … consistent with the idea that norms regarding the appropriate relative pay of women compared to men are shaping gender …

This paper addresses the issue of the gender pay gap in the formal and informal labour markets in Poland. The authors … verify the hypothesis of the existence of a gender pay gap in informal work and compare this gap with the one observed in the … formal (registered) labour market. Various analyses of available data show that size and characteristics of gender pay gap …

The study analyses the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions in Germany based on data from the German … Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the years 2001-2008. It focuses in particular on gender segregation in the labor … inequality on earnings levels and gender wage differentials in management positions. Our paper is, to our knowledge, the first in …

Using a rich and comparable micro-data set, we analyse international differences in gender pay gaps in the private … gender differentials. However, the magnitude of their effects varies across countries. …