The gender wage gap rises with experience. To what extent do firm policies mediate this rise? We use administrative … contribution of first employers to the rise in the gender wage gap, taking account of maternity events affecting a third of female … sorting of women to slower-growth firms accounts for a fifth of the gender growth gap. Women who have a child within 5 years …

state and federal minimum wage policies on gender, race, and ethnic inequality throughout the wage distribution, focusing on … gender, racial, and ethnic inequality in the present day …

via individual bargaining have a 3 percentage point higher gender wage gap …

participation, occupational attainment, and the gender wage gap. The author first highlights considerable progress on all dimensions … resumption of progress in narrowing gender gaps in these areas, concluding it is unlikely without policy intervention. She then … increasing female labor force participation and narrowing gender inequities in the labor market …

Using linked employer-employee data from Brazil, we document a large gender pay gap due to women working at lower … suggests that amenities are important for both men and women, that compensating differentials explain half of the gender pay … gap, and that there are significant output and welfare gains from eliminating gender differences. However, equal …

This paper summarizes research on gender differences in economic settings. I discuss gender differences in attitudes … toward competition, altruism and the closely related issue of cooperation, and risk preferences. While gender differences in …. Surprisingly, the results are also quite mixed when concerning gender differences in risk attitudes. I discuss the external …

analysis considers various experimental treatments and finds that the existence of gender differences depends crucially on the …

study gender differences in promotion rates and in the wage gains attached to promotions. Several unique features of our … attached to promotions, and relatively few studies on gender differences have considered promotions and wage increases together … there is essentially no gender difference in wage growth with or without promotions …