This paper investigates how female leadership affects the gender wage gap in the U. S. federal government. Using a ….1% increase in female wages and a 6.7% decline in male wages. Also, the gender of an executive (a higher level supervisor) has a … lesser impact on wages than the gender of regular supervisors. However, the gender of an executive has a greater impact on …

We study the gender gap in the duration of sick leave in Spain by splitting this duration into two types of days …

Measuring gender inequality and women's empowerment is essential to understand the determinants of gender gaps … perspective to the current debate on measuring gender inequality in human development. As a starting point, we develop a simple … macroeconomic model of the interdependence between human development and gender inequality. We then introduce a biometric indicator …

Purpose Despite more than 50 years of research into gender and work, the impact of women occupying managerial positions …

This study aims to measure the gender wage gap among millennial workers in Colombia and determine if there is a marked … ceiling, that is, if there is a larger gender wage gap among workers earning relatively high wages. The study data included a …–Blinder econometric methods of wage decomposition were used to calculate both raw and adjusted gender wage gaps. The latter results in …

characteristic of same-age neighbors-their gender-affects a variety of high school and university outcomes. We exploit randomness in … the gender composition of local cohorts at birth from one year to the next. In a setting in which school assignment is …

This chapter provides a bird's eye view of the literature on gender discrimination. The presentation of studies is … grouped into five parts. Part 1 presents evidence of gender discrimination measured via various dimensions in various … countries and contexts. Part 2 discusses in detail the gender wage gap - one of the most important measures of gender …