) reduction of uncertainty by information search, leading to less stereotyping of people, and hence less discrimination; (ii …

biased, it becomes policy-relevant to know how to influence individuals' expectations. Information in the media is likely to …

women in 1990 underestimated the true, selection-corrected gap, i.e., the gap we would have expected to see had all of these … women been employed in 1990. In this paper, we use the NLSY97 to update his analysis. The observed median log wage gap … considerable extent by changes in the distribution of educational attainment across young white and black women. …

This study investigates whether and when during the life cycle women fall behind in terms of career progression because … establishment as well as in combination with an establishment change. Women with children are 1.6 percentage points less likely … promoted than women without children; this is what we refer to as the family gap in climbing the career. We find that mothers …

probit regressions based on repeated cross sections of the Philippine Labor Force Survey indicate that both men and women … to wage employment, women lost job opportunities in wage- and self-employment, and they experienced increases in unpaid … family work. Real wages fell for men and women, with much of the decline at the upper tails of the wage distribution. If one …

differentials between white non-Hispanic males and women, Hispanics and African-Americans. Women's and Hispanics' relative earnings …