Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay … gap remains. This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the gender wage gap, with an emphasis on … developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends in the gender differences in wages and employment rates. We then …

We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the …, we find that family structure is a driver of the education gender gap, with a higher female to male enrollment rate ratio …

This paper analyzes to what extent gender culture affects gender gap in employment. Drawing on Italian data, we measure … gender culture based on firms’ attitudes is significant in explaining gender gap in employment in Italian provinces. We show …

More females than males have been attending Canadian universities over the past decade and this gender imbalance in … attending university and explore the reasons for the increasing gender imbalance. We find that, in gender-specific equations …

that a larger share of Protestants decreased the gender gap in basic education. This result holds when using only the …. Similar results are found for the gender gap in literacy among the adult population in 1871 …

Using PSID microdata over the 1980-2010, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender … explained little of the gender wage gap, while gender differences in occupation and industry continued to be important. Moreover …, the gender pay gap declined much more slowly at the top of the wage distribution that at the middle or the bottom and by …