This study examines the wage gender gap of young adults in the 1970s, 1980s, and 2000 in the US. Using quantile … regression we estimate the gender gap across the entire wage distribution. We also study the importance of high school … while some school characteristics are positive and significant predictors of future wages for Whites, they are less so for …

We assess the relevance of formal education for the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between … employment options. We expect differences in the returns to education between these groups because of different levels of control …. We use the German Socio-economic Panel and account for the endogeneity of education and non-random selection. The results …

The paper analyzes the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions based on German panel data and using fixed …-effects models. It deals with the effect of occupational sex segregation on wages, and the extent to which wage penalties for …

Although there are a variety of studies on the gender pay gap, only a few relate to managerial positions. The present … differ only marginally in their human capital endowments. The Oaxaca/Blinder decomposition shows that the gender pay gap in … the gross monthly salary can hardly be explained using the human capital approach. Adding variables on gender …

Germany to use time-constant unobserved heterogeneity and gender-specific promotion probabilities to estimate wages and wage …The study analyses the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions in Germany based on data from the German … Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the years 2001-2008. It focuses in particular on gender segregation in the labor …

Models in which employers learn about the productivity of young workers, such as Altonji and Pierret (2001), have two … principal implications: First, the distribution of wages becomes more dispersed as a cohort of workers gains experience; second … growth in the variance of residual wages over the first ten years of the worker's career are also the occupations with high …

' wages only. Findings for personality traits are more heterogeneous. There however is a robust wage penalty for an external …