Differences between men and women in non-cognitive skills could be the reason why the gender gap closing didn’t improve …" database conducted by the Céreq. This survey provides information on gender preferences differences in terms of career versus …-cognitive skills matter, 6.3% of the total gender wage gap, that is almost twice as experience, but a large part, 60% of the gap …

Background In many OECD countries, the gender differences in physicians’ pay favour male doctors. Due to the … income gap between males and females general practitioners (GPs). This paper focuses on the role of gender medical practices …-practice GPs, we measured an average gender income gap of approximately 26% in favour of men. Using the decomposition method, we …

larger gender wage gaps at the upper tail of the wage distribution. Using a matched worker-firm data set of about 1 30 000 … information specific to the firms. Our different results show that accounting for firm-related characteristics reduces the gender …. Furthermore, a quantile decomposition shows that the gender wage gap is mainly due to differences in the returns to observed …

. The second measures the extent of the gender performance gap among informal entrepreneurs and explores the existence of … gender-differentiated effects of sharing norms and the allocation of tasks within the household on the technical efficiency …

gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a …-employment raises the gap by 5 percentage points. We then investigate the role of sharing norms and gender-differentiated allocation of … time within the household in the gender performance gap, by estimating their effect on the technical inefficiency of female …

highlight a definite gender pattern, with a strong association between early disadvantage and obesity in women, but not in men …

This paper analyses part of the controversy over export processing zones (EPZs)—the labour market and gender impacts … of microdata availability, we estimate earnings regressions to assess sector and gender wage premia. Zone Franche … women from the low-wage informal sector (where the gender pay gap is very large) to the relatively well-paid export …

analysis of gender-related issues. Based on biographical data relating the sequence of events concerning matrimony …