This paper updates the major study by Macpherson and Hirsch (1995) of the effect of the gender composition of … of the gender wage gap. An updated longitudinal analysis using the CPS data is also provided. This examination of two … advantage of offering a longer panel. Analysis of the former suggests the reduction in gender composition effects observed for …

This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth … negative, and not just for females. -- mid-career ; early career ; promotion ; wages ; wage growth ; gender ; unionism ; public …

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 …

that there are gender differences in match quality and changes in match quality over the course of careers. In particular …. However, the direction of the gender effect differs significantly by education. Only females among the college educated are …

are offered with findings from analyses for the US and Canada to enable assessment of the relative impacts of favorable …

This paper examines the links between gender differences in attitudes towards economic risk and the gender pay gap … risk are associated with higher earnings, and that gender differences in attitudes towards economic risk can account for a … small, though important, part of the standardized gender pay gap. -- wages ; gender ; risk ; wage gap …

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

This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using … Canada than in the US, where it predominates among the least educated. -- Immigrants ; skill ; schooling ; earnings ; rates … of return ; Canada …