, job type, and job rank. Our results suggest gender differences in all three dimensions of job placement. Relative to their …

; gender ; employment discrimination ; skin tone ; panel data …

Jews ; education ; discrimination ; gender …

In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the … sources. We show that our gender-specific crosswalk more accurately captures the trends in occupational segregation that are …. -- occupational segregation ; gender ; discrimination …

This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service … and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to … legislature seats. This gender gap in advancing to Congress among state legislators is not generated by gender differences in …

factors in income differences - race and gender - that contribute to income inequality within the population of blacks and … inequality associated with gender exceeds greatly that of race. While gender income inequality falls over time, income inequality …

Prior research suggests that gender differences in hours worked play an important role in the gender pay gap. Yet … for the gender wage gap, even though men work more hours than women on average. However, while the wage returns to hours … worked within occupation are small, we document that the wage returns to average hours worked across occupations are large …

We use HILDA data from 2001 - 2006 to analyse the source of the gender wage gap across public- and private-sector wage … distributions in Australia. We are particularly interested in the role of gender segregation within sector-specific occupations in … explaining relative wages. We find that, irrespective of labour market sector, the gender wage gap among low-paid, Australian …

explained little of the gender wage gap, while gender differences in occupation and industry continued to be important. Moreover …Using PSID microdata over the 1980-2010, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender …, the gender pay gap declined much more slowly at the top of the wage distribution that at the middle or the bottom and by …