We examine the differential effects of automation on the labor market and educational outcomes of women relative to men … over the past four decades. Although women were disproportionately employed in occupations with a high risk of automation … link by exploiting variation in local labor market exposure to automation attributable to historical differences in local …

We examine the differential effects of automation on the labor market and educational outcomes of women relative to men … over the past four decades. Although women were disproportionately employed in occupations with a high risk of automation … link by exploiting variation in local labor market exposure to automation attributable to historical differences in local …

Focused on human capital, economists typically explain about half of the gender earnings gap. For a national sample of … preferences regarding family, career, and jobs. Those two sources of gender heterogeneity account for a quarter of the "explained …

The comovement between gender gaps in hours and wages across countries and skills reveals the presence of net demand … forces shaping gender differences in labor market outcomes. This paper links the rich pattern of variation in gender gaps to … gender bias in labor demand can be decomposed into measurable within- and between-industry components. Using comparable micro …

In this paper, we explore the recent gender wage gap trends in a sample of European countries with a new approach that … gender wage gap declined in the majority of the European countries. Similar to the U.S. experience, a part of this decline is …, the changes in returns to brain and brawn skills had a widening effect on the gender wage gap in Southern European …

-school leadership experiences explain a significant portion of the residual gender wage gap and selection into management occupations … experiences, our results leave less room for direct labor market discrimination as a driver of the gender wage gap and occupation …

This paper investigates whether personality traits can explain glass ceilings (increasing gender wage gaps across the … up to 14.5% of the overall gender wage gap. However, controlling for personality traits does not lead to a significant …

labor market, according to gender, across four Latin American countries. We find that information and communication … for both men and women. However, there is a significant gender gap that favors men on the STEM returns. There is also a … sizable gender gap regarding the amount of skills accumulated by gender. Through an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, we estimate …

gender wage gap between 1985 and 2010 can be explained by a reduction in occupational segregation between the genders. The … attributed to changes in (selection corrected) skill prices. The impact of movements in skill prices on the reduction in gender …

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 …