Using harmonised data from the European Union Household Panel, we analyse gender pay gaps by sector across the wages … distribution for ten countries. We find that the mean gender pay gap in the raw data typically hides large variations in the gap … men and women. We find that, first, gender pay gaps are typically bigger at the top of the wage distribution, a finding …

gender wage gap patterns in the EU since the onset of the Great Recession. We show that male selection into the labour market …

In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this … returns and focus especially on those incorporating pyschological factors as an explanation of the gender gap. Research areas … differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps. -- Glass ceiling ; experimental economics ; personality …

In this paper, we analyse the recent patterns of occupational segregation by gender in the EU countries vis-à-vis the …, hoping to uncover convergence trends by examining whether the EU-Us differentials in gender occupational segregation decline … across age cohorts. The main findings of our study are: (i) gender segregation has been declining across age cohorts in the …