lecture I briefly survey some recent studies aiming to explain why apparently identical women and men receive such different … differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps. …

related to the West German wage gap, but in East Germany, wages of both men and women are higher in predominantly female … in East Germany at the outset of reforms and the selection of only high-skill women into employment. Finally …

We present a theoretical explanation of the gender wage gap that turns on the interaction between men and women in … households. In equilibria where men are over-represented in full-time work, we show that firms rationally choose to hire women …

Since the early seventies, hundreds of authors have calculated gender wage differentials between women and men of equal …

women respond differently to competitive pressure in a setting with large monetary rewards. In particular, it asks whether … in four of the nine tournaments under examination. The set-level analysis indicates that both men and women perform less … inclusion of match and player-specific fixed effects. The drop in performance of women in the decisive set is slightly larger …

most of the related literature, our model fully relies on statistical discrimination. If firms believe that women will quit …

This Paper evaluates the impact of economic and legal variables on wage differentials between men and women. Since …, practically all countries have enacted some sort of law mandating equal treatment of men and women. This Paper uses a new …