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 …

We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …

An alleged achievement of socialism was gender equality in the labour market. Has its collapse shattered this … this is largely explained by a matching decline in ‘Oaxaca's discrimination,’ suggesting extraordinary improvement of women …

results show that discrimination plays a more important role in explaining gender wage differentials than in explaining ethnic … of workers into an endowment component and a discrimination component. The standard decomposition technique does not take … modified, in order to take into account the contribution of segregation to the endowments and the discrimination components. It …

findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation … unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new …

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 …

This paper studies gender interactions within hierarchical organizations using a large data set on the duration of … when we control for municipality fixed effects as well as non-random sorting of women into municipalities using regression … discontinuity in gender-mixed electoral races decided by a narrow margin. The likelihood that a female mayor survives until the end …

Using a unique data source on academic economist labour market experiences, we explore gender, pay and promotions. In … addition to earnings and productivity measures, we have information on outside offers and perceptions of discrimination. In … contrast to the existing literature, we find both a gender promotions gap and a within-rank gender pay gap. A driving factor …

tradition of the caste system influence entrepreneurship, suggesting a link between religion and economic behaviour. …While considerable concern has emerged about the impact of religion on economic development, little is actually known … about how religion impacts the decision making of individuals. This paper examines the influence of religion on the decision …