differences between men and women, can provide a plausible explanation. We conduct an experiment on a Dutch online survey panel to …

This paper focuses on re-examining the gender wage gap and the potential role that reservation wages play. Based on two … waves of rich data from the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey we examine the importance of gender differences in reservation … wages to explain the gender gap in realized wages for a sample of newly unemployed individuals actively searching for a full …

The gender gap in inter-firm mobility is an important contributor to the gender pay gap but is as yet unexplained. In a … structural model of workplace choice, I show that the gender mobility gap can be understood as a consequence of women's typical … weaker the less an individual contributes to household earnings. Furthermore, gender differences are small once differences …

find no evidence of gender discrimination in either treatment, however, possibly indicating that gender stereotypes are of …If individual abilities are imperfectly observable, statistical discrimination may affect hiring decisions. In our lab … experiment, pairs of subjects solve simple mathematical problems. Subjects then hire others to perform similar tasks. Before …

This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a … large-scale field experiment in which real college students seek information from 10,000 working professionals about various …/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work …

employment discrimination against U.S. women. For the next 15 years, the gender gap in median earnings among full-time, full … in the 1960 gender gap across occupation-industry-state-group cells to capture differences in the legislation's incidence …. Both designs suggest that federal anti-discrimination legislation led to striking gains in women's relative wages, which …

hiring wage gap has narrowed over the past two decades, it still accounts for over half of the overall gender pay gap in … findings suggest that gender pay gap reporting laws that focus exclusively on the overall gaps within employers miss an …

we find a raw gender wage gap (GWG) in hourly wages of around 0.18-0.21 log points. The regression-adjusted gap is around …

An important underlying determinant of wage discrimination, as well as the gender wage gap is the way the labor market … individual labor market outcomes and the way attractiveness affects gender wage differentials. Further research is needed on the … transmission and the effect this has on the gender wage gap. …

pay discrimination. Unbiased decompositions can be obtained when the Oaxaca-Blinder wage equation is augmented by the … considerably larger shares of the gender wage gap than does the standard decomposition. …