women's and men's pay in Great Britain. It is decomposed into a gap attributable to gender differences in human capital … characteristics (such as education, work experience, and time spent out of employment by women), and a gap attributable to gender … discrimination. Using data collected in the 1980 Women and Employment Survey, we find that women's wages would be between 20 and 25 …

from Protestant marriage registers of historical Kampala to investigate the hypothesis that African gender inequality and …-long transformation of Kampala involving a gender Kuznets curve. Men rapidly acquired literacy and quickly found their way into white …-collar (high-status) employment in the wage economy built by the Europeans. Women took somewhat longer to obtain literacy and …

of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than one-half of the gender gap in this …Since monetary union with West Germany on 1 July 1990, eastern female monthly wages have risen by 10 percentage points … relative to male wages, but female employment has fallen 5 percentage points more than male employment. Using the German Socio …

-time jobs contributes to women's lower pay separately from gender differences in human capital attributes. … 1980 Women in Employment Survey) finds significant sample selection bias for women in full-time jobs. Part of the observed … differential between the hourly pay of full-timers and part-timers arises because of self-selection of women who can command higher …

This paper presents a wage series for unskilled English women workers from 1260 to 1850 and compares it with existing … evidence for men. Our series cast light on long run trends in women’s agency and wellbeing, revealing an intractable, indeed … widening gap between women and men’s remuneration in the centuries following the Black Death. This informs several recent …

In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females …-paid jobs can be detected and quantified. We estimate the gender relative probability of getting any given job position for full …

determine local wages and unemployment; when mobility between regions is obstructed by rent subsidies and controls, unemployment … regions wages respond predominantly). The hypothesis is tested on United Kingdom regional unemployment data from 1963 to 1979 …

The relationship between unemployment and the rate of change of money wages in interwar Britain is re-examined. It is …-term unemployment did not act as a restraint on the growth of money wages. New estimates of the wage equation imply that the NAIRU rose …

Gender-based discrimination is a pervasive and costly phenomenon. To a greater or lesser extent, all economies present … a gender wage gap, associated with lower female labour force participation rates and higher fertility. This paper … discrimination. The model is calibrated to mimic the performance of the U.S. economy, including the gender wage gap and relative …

-cycle of the 1940 cohort. Conditioning solely on gender, our ex ante welfare analysis finds that women would fare better under … mutual consent whereas men would prefer a unilateral system. Once we condition not only on gender but also on initial … unilateral system as are the top two quintiles of women; the rest prefer mutual consent. We also find that although the change in …