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 …

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 … than female employers pay to male employees. Moreover, we find gender differences in the first offers of the bargaining …

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 …

effect on the gender wage gap (GWG). This study argues that there is a systematic difference in the GWG between exporting …

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 …