Gender inequality is an acute and persistent problem, especially in developing countries. This paper argues that gender … discrimination is an inefficient practice. We model gender discrimination as the complete exclusion of females from the labor market …

In Finland the gender wage gap increases significantly during the first 10 years after labor market entry accounting … most of the life-time increase in the gender wage gap. This paper focuses on the early career gender wage differences among … university graduates and considers several explanations for the gender wage gap based on the human capital theory, job mobility …

There is evidence of a negative cross-country correlation between gender wage and employment gaps. We argue that non … become consistent with low gender wage gaps simply because low-wage women would not feature in the observed wage distribution …. We explore this idea across the US and EU countries estimating gender gaps in potential wages. We recover information on …

structure in Europe in the 1980s. These different trends are the result of different investment decisions by firms for the jobs … typically held by less skilled workers. Firms in Europe have more incentives to invest in less skilled workers, because minimum …

of statistical discrimination on the basis of gender and types of degree programmes. When we split the sample by ability …