association, we find that female wages are negatively associated with working directly for a female as opposed to male manager …

, leading to a link between a firm's operating profits and wages of workers employed by this firm. We estimate the parameters of …

developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends in the gender differences in wages and employment rates. We then …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 …

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 …

We examine behavioral gender differences and gender pairing effects in a laboratory experiment with face … female players. Male employees get higher wages than female employees. Male employers pay lower wages to female employees … than female employers pay to male employees. Moreover, we find gender differences in the first offers of the bargaining …

gender wage gap. Cross-country data show that fertility, female labour force participation and childcare are positively … correlated with each other, while the gender wage gap seems to be negatively correlated with these variables. The paper presents …

, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic … performance and their labor market income. We exploit the within-school, cohort-by-cohort variation in the gender composition of … not find significant effects of the high school class gender composition on women. Our results are consistent with the …

This paper investigates the way in which job mobility contributes to the emergence of a gender wage gap in the Italian … this difference is particularly large when workers move across firms. This gender mobility penalty is robust to the …, and is mainly found for voluntary job moves. Exploring the wage growth of job movers, we find that a significant gender …

higher wages. The standard literature stipulates that the identity of the entity that is statutorily entitled for the subsidy … wages with the gift of exerting higher effort. Thus, if a wage subsidy is implemented by indirectly subsidizing employers …, employers face a lower cost of labor and increase their wages, leading workers to reciprocate with higher effort and …

the gender wage gap narrows by one fifth due to an increase by one standard deviation in the approval. Rejecting an … where the gender wage gap is smaller. …