. The most important involves the detrimental impact of discrimination and other factors that cause women to accept wage … the estimate of the differential in the returns to schooling. The third explanation considered is that women choose to …

-random selection of women into work explains an important part of such correlation and thus of the observed variation in wage gaps. The … idea is that, if women who are employed tend to have relatively high-wage characteristics, low female employment rates may … become consistent with low gender wage gaps simply because low-wage women would not feature in the observed wage distribution …

among men and women, and to a lesser extent among full-time working women, in the decade of economic growth which ended with … the recession of 2008. PP was also associated with some compression in the lower half of the wage distribution for women …

Common wisdom states that teenage childbearing reduces schooling, labour market experience and adult wages. However …

, wages and restructuring in transition in three former centrally planned economies (Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland). They … protect low skilled wages; whereas in late transition ones, firm level agreements increase medium and especially high skilled … wages. Some cross country differences emerge in the structure of the wage premium as a result of country specific features …