microsimulations. We find that women swam against the tide: whilst the trend in female qualifications slightly reduced the gender wage …We analyse gender wage inequalities in Italy in the mid-1990s and in the mid-2000s. In this period important labour … gender wage gap by estimating wage distributions in the presence of covariates and sample selection and by counterfactual …

feminist society, one of a random equilibrium and a last one that estimates the degree of social gender bias towards men. The …

This paper studies the gender wage gap by educational attainment in Italy using the 1994–2001 ECHP data. We estimate … wage distributions in the presence of covariates and sample selection separately for highly and low educated men and women …. Then, we decompose the gender wage gap across all the wage distribution and isolate the part due to gender differences in …

group, is a key driver of progress for women. However, the role of migrants in helping female voice from abroad has not been … women left behind following the brand new strand of literature on ‘transfers of norms’. Panel data from 1960 to 2000 allows … us to take into account selection due to women’s eligibility, observed and unobserved heterogeneity. After having …

if men marry younger women and population is growing. We define a missing Brides Index to reflect the intensity of the …

to the second child and that childcare services enabling women to work are an important determinant for this transition …

Sizeable gender differences in employment rates are observed in many countries. Sample selection into the workforce … might therefore be a relevant issue when estimating gender wage gaps. This paper proposes a new semi-parametric estimator of … counterfactual comparisons of densities. The proposed methodology is used to investigate the gender wage gap in Italy. It is found …

dowries and domestic violence. The predictions from these models are tested with survey data. We find that women who pay … smaller dowries suffer an increased risk of marital violence, as do women who come from richer families. …