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 …

, the gender pay gap declined much more slowly at the top of the wage distribution that at the middle or the bottom and by … the importance of these factors suggests that they account for a small to moderate portion of the gender pay gap …Using PSID microdata over the 1980-2010, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender …

, 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 …

Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper argues that norms on the appropriate pay for … constitution as a proxy for the norm that “women and men shall have the right to equal pay for work of equal value”. We find that … the gender wage gap narrows by one fifth due to an increase by one standard deviation in the approval. Rejecting an …

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 …