, 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 …

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

meritocratic (non-meritocratic) principles as being important in determining individual wages. This finding is robust to the use of …

wages. On the other hand, there is a firm-level wage effect: A multinational firm pays higher wages in its home market than …

, relative wages for human capital declined by 2 percent during 1995-2002 and increased by 41 percent during 1994-2002 in Poland …. In both countries outsourcing contributes roughly 35 percent to these changes in the relative wages for skilled worker …