factor behind the overall gender wage gap. On matched employer-employee data from Norway, we estimate establishment … wage premium identify less wage elastic labour supply facing each establishment of women than that of men. Workforce gender … composition is strongly related to employers' wage policies. The results suggest that 70-90 percent of the gender wage gap for low …

We analyse gender wage inequalities in Italy in the mid-1990s and in the mid-2000s. In this period important labour … gender wage gap by estimating wage distributions in the presence of covariates and sample selection and by counterfactual … microsimulations. We find that women swam against the tide: whilst the trend in female qualifications slightly reduced the gender wage …

Sizeable gender differences in employment rates are observed in many countries. Sample selection into the workforce … might therefore be a relevant issue when estimating gender wage gaps. This paper proposes a new semi-parametric estimator of … counterfactual comparisons of densities. The proposed methodology is used to investigate the gender wage gap in Italy. It is found …

gender wage gap to assess the contribution of observed characteristics measuring individual productivity. We find that the … gender wage gap narrowed by more than 13 percent at the lowest decile and by less than 4 percent at the highest decile. The … decomposition results indicate that changes in the gender wage gap are mainly attributable to changes in educational attainment at …

We consider and attempt to understand the gender wage gap across 24 EU member states, all of which share the objective … of gender equality, using 2007 data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions. The size of the … gender wage gap varies considerably across countries and selection corrections affect the offered gap, sometimes …

-sloping for high degrees of assortative mating. A quantitative analysis of our model suggests that changes in the gender wage gap …

on the probability of employment in many, though not all, occupations in ways that differ by gender. Consequently, men … average not because they work in different occupations than men do, but rather because they earn less than their male … gender wage gap that is unexplained. …

Unlike in many other transition countries, where the gender pay gap has remained stable while female employment rates … have reduced, in the case of Belarus women’ activity rate has been practically unchanged despite an increase in the gender …

graduates contributes to the gender pay gap, and the reasons underlying their distinct educational choices. The case of Greece … is examined due to the fact that it is an EU country with historically large gender discrepancies in earnings and … firstly estimated by gender. It is found that the subjects in which women are relatively over-represented (e.g. Education …

Seguino (2000) shows that gender wage discrimination in export-oriented semi-industrialized countries might be … discrimination data, we replicate the analysis using data from a meta-study on gender wage discrimination and do not find any … evidence that more discrimination might further economic growth – on the contrary: if anything the impact of gender inequality …