Using a rich and comparable micro-data set, we analyse international differences in gender pay gaps in the private … gender differentials. However, the magnitude of their effects varies across countries. …

This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure … show that the gender difference in the probability of getting a job increases along the wage ladder from 9% to 50%. Females …

In this paper, we use quantile regression decomposition methods to analyze the gender gap between men and women who … selection is a serious issue. In addition to shedding light on the sources of the gender gap in the Netherlands, we make two … unobservables. Our decompositions show that the majority of the gender log wage gap is due to differences between men and women in …

This paper examines the links between gender differences in attitudes towards economic risk and the gender pay gap … risk are associated with higher earnings, and that gender differences in attitudes towards economic risk can account for a … small, though important, part of the standardized gender pay gap. …

sample of professionals is decomposed into several subsamples: men and women and within each gender a distinction is made …). Comparisons by gender and ethnicity can then be made. Characteristics (endowments) and wage structures of the four groups are …

information on employers, to measure the relative bargaining power of men and women and assess the impact of the gender gap in … bargaining strength on the male-female wage gap. We show that a model with additive fixed effects for workers and gender … perform a simple decomposition by assigning the firm-specific wage premiums for one gender to the other. Second, we relate the …

Earlier literature on the gender pay gap has taught us that occupations matter and so do firms. However, the role of … impact of the allocation of workers to firms and to job titles shaping the gender pay gap. We also provide a methodological … of the conditional gap. We find that one fifth of the gender pay gap results from segregation of workers across firms and …

The paper analyzes the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions based on German panel data and using fixed …

In this paper we show the importance of subject of degree in explaining the gender wage gap in Colombia. In order to … minimize the influence of gender differences in experience, promotions, and job changes on the wage gap, we focus on college … explained by differences in subject of degree. Using a distributional decomposition, we find an increasing gender wage gap …