This paper examines how gender-specific application behaviour, firms' hiring practices, and flexibility demands relate … to the gender earnings gap, using linked data from the German Job Vacancy Survey and administrative records. Women are … similar when they do. We show that compensating differentials for firms' flexibility demands help explain the residual gender …

Using linked employer-employee data from Brazil, we document a large gender pay gap due to women working at lower … important for both men and women and that compensating differentials explain half of the gender pay gap. Equal …-treatment policies partly close gender gaps but are not output- or welfare-improving. …

We study the persistence of the gender unemployment gap in the Italian regions in the 1992-2009 period. Results from … unit-root tests analysis with structural break suggest that the process of gender catching-up in the unemployment rates is … labour markets. -- gender unemployment gap ; regional disparities ; unit-root tests with structural break …

-spans. We derive the optimal direction of redistribution and show how it is affected by a gender neutrality rule. With singles … concave redistribution may or may not be reversed. With couples only, the ranking of gender retirement ages is always reversed … when the transformation is sufficiently concave. Under gender neutrality pension schemes must be self-selecting. With …

Using a multi-dimensional measure of occupational mismatch, we report distinct gender differences in match quality and … changes in match quality over the course of careers. A substantial portion of the gender wage gap stems from match quality …

The vast majority of existing studies that estimate the average unexplained gender pay gap use unnecessarily … unexplained gender pay gap. We study the sensitivity of the estimates with regard to i) the availability of observationally … factors matter greatly. Blinder-Oaxaca estimates of the unexplained gender pay gap decline by up to 39% when we enforce …

actually decreased through time. For the older cohort, we then explore the role of age, education, gender, and occupational …

labor and tackle the gender employment gap, but they are not sufficient for reducing the gender pay gap. …

can be reconciled by gender differences in nonpecuniary costs of school attendance, myopia, or perceived returns to … education. The findings suggest that due to these gender differences, economic booms misallocate young men away from school …, entrenching the gender gap in education. …

-educated workers in Canada over 1993-96. We show that after correcting for the relative supply effect of educated to less educated …