examine both and reveal striking gender differences. A consistent - and puzzling - finding is that unions reduce wage …

We investigate whether competitive selection processes generate gender inequality in the context of a prestigious … in-person interview. The data show a very large gender gap in success rates: women's success rate is 36% lower than men …% lower than for comparable male candidates. We show that this gap is explained by reviewers engaging in gender balancing …

Background: We aim to investigate to what extent gender inequality at the labor market explains higher depression risk … the Health and Retirement Study. We calculate the gender gap as the difference in the prevalence of elevated depressive … gender gap in depression risk is 2.9%-points at ages 50-51 which increases to 7.6%-points at ages 70-71. Intervention A …

. Earnings maximization largely explains sorting patterns among males, while gender discrimination has a large effect on the …

Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this paper examines the role of gender in the promotion …. Specifically, how do the factors related to promotion differ for men and women? How do gender differences in promotion translate … into differences in subsequent wage growth? To what extent does the promotions gap contribute to the gender wage gap? In …

, the largest factor was that the "unexplained" gender wage gap fell much faster in the 1980s than the 1990s. Our evidence … suggests that changes in labor force selectivity, changes in gender differences in unmeasured characteristics and in labor … convergence of the unexplained gender pay gap. -- gender pay gap ; wage differentials …