In this paper the extensive empirical literature on the gender wage gap is reviewed with particular attention given to … lead to inconsistent parameter estimates. On the other hand, empirical evidence on the gender wage gap hinges on the …

Previous studies on gender wage discrimination have relied on OLS when estimating the wage equations. However, there … estimates for a number of reasons. Consequently, if we neglect this potential bias in OLS when estimating the gender wage gap … find overwhelming evidence that OLS seriously overestimate the unexplained gender wage gap. …

In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … contribute to observed gender wage gaps. We conduct laboratory experiments in which subjects choose between a risky (in terms of … more likely than men to select the secure job, and these job choices accounted for between 40% and 77% of the gender wage …

power (or labor market frictions) can account for gender differences in pay, using data from a chain of regional grocery … ; gender ; discrimination …

. Specifically, we study short-run fluctuations in adjusted gender wage gaps (unequal pay for equal work) following episodes of … declines in the gender wage gap. This decrease is driven mostly by episodes experienced among cohorts who enter the labor …

history, one norm widely adhered to in most developed nations has been for men to be the primary breadwinner within mixed-gender … households. As women have entered the labor market in greater numbers and gender wage differentials have declined, female … differences in the ease of access to superior partnership alternatives for women who out-earn their partners. While gender …

such as Oaxaca decompositions and quantile counterfactual approaches. In an application, we study gender disparities in the … fairly in the public sector, we find that the gender gap in propensity to get job positions along the wage distribution is … rather similar in the two sectors. The gender wage gap in the public sector is 13% and it increases by only 0.7 percentage …

examine both and reveal striking gender differences. A consistent - and puzzling - finding is that unions reduce wage …