Average gender pay gaps have absorbed the interest of economists for many years. Morerecently studies have begun to … explore the degree to which observed gender wage gapsmight differ across the wages distribution. The stylised facts from these … studies,summarised in the first part of the paper, are that the gender pay gap in Europe istypically increasing across the …

This paper estimates the gender wage gap and its composition in China's urban labor market using the 2009 survey data … examine the gender wage gap using ordinary least square regression method with a gender dummy variable. Then, we apply Oaxaca … referred to as discrimination turns out to be higher when the adjustment is made for the selection bias. A further breakdown of …

This paper examines gender discrimination in the Australian graduate labour market, using data from the Graduate … is applied. A smaller gender wage gap is found for university graduates than that reported for all workers in earlier … studies. It is shown, however, that the gender wage gap widens with the age at graduation. This pattern is argued to reflect …

While researchers have long held that discrimination cannot endure in an increasingly competitive environment, there … competition resulting from globalization in the 1980s forced employers to reduce costly discrimination against women. The … empirical strategy exploits differences in market structure across industries to identify the impact of trade on the gender wage …

This paper estimates the gender wage gap and its composition in China's urban labor market using the 2009 survey data … examine the gender wage gap using ordinary least square regression method with a gender dummy variable. Then, we apply Oaxaca … referred to as discrimination turns out to be higher when the adjustment is made for the selection bias. A further breakdown of …

This paper examines gender discrimination in the Australian graduate labour market, using data from the Graduate … is applied. A smaller gender wage gap is found for university graduates than that reported for all workers in earlier … studies. It is shown, however, that the gender wage gap widens with the age at graduation. This pattern is argued to reflect …

While researchers have long held that discrimination cannot endure in an increasingly competitive environment, there … competition resulting from globalization in the 1980s forced employers to reduce costly discrimination against women. The … empirical strategy exploits differences in market structure across industries to identify the impact of trade on the gender wage …

increased wage inequality, discrimination as well as the concern of job insecurity in the labour market. We focus on the wage …

Theories of taste-based discrimination predict that competitive pressures will drive discriminatory behavior out of the … related to the gender composition of the firm's workforce and the gender wage gap. Using a difference-in-difference framework … ownership change, in particular when product market competition is weak. Further, increased competition reduces the gender wage …

major) or employer discrimination against black job candidates. However, limited measures of human capital and the inherent … difficulties in measuring discrimination using observational data make determining the cause of racial differences in labor … in the labor market. Thus, both discrimination and differences in human capital contribute to racial economic inequality …