This study examines the gender gap in wages of young adults in the late 1970s, mid 1980s, and 2000, in the middle and …, but it is less so for the two minority groups. We confirm significant gender disparities in wages favoring men across … three surveys in the 1970s, 1980s, and 2000 that are unaccounted for. While the unexplained gender gap is evident across the …

This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist … countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender pay gap has not exhibited, in general …, an upward tendency over the transitional period to which available data relate. Most of the gender pay gap is ascribed to …

Using harmonised data from the European Union Household Panel, we analyse gender pay gaps by sector across the wages … distribution for ten countries. We find that the mean gender pay gap in the raw data typically hides large variations in the gap … men and women. We find that, first, gender pay gaps are typically bigger at the top of the wage distribution, a finding …

Using data from 1998, we show that the gender log wage gap in Sweden increases throughout the wage distribution and … pattern either for the log wage gap between immigrants and non-immigrants in the Swedish labor market or for the gender gap in … the U.S. labor market. Our findings suggest that a gender-specific mechanism in the Swedish labor market hinders women …

In this paper we analyze the trend of the gender gap between wives and husbands for Mediterranean countries with a … strong family tradition, using data from the European Household Panel (ECHP) of 2001 and the European Survey on Income and … for children. This paper uses quantile regression and counterfactual decomposition methods to investigate whether a glass …

This paper uses new micro data from the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) to examine the gender gaps … started to be considered a market economy (2003). We find that the gender pay gap is higher in the top half of the … sector. The fall in the gender gap in the lower part of the distribution from 1986 to 2003 is explained partially by the …

educational attainment. The findings show that (i) a change in the gender composition of a class impacts differently low- and high …