This study analyses the interaction between inter-industry wage differentials and the gender wage gap in six European … is quite similar for men and women and across countries, their dispersion is significantly larger in countries with … results show that in all countries more than 80% of the gender wage gaps within industries are statistically significant. Yet …

gender gap at low wages is observed after the introduction of the minimum wage in Ireland while there is hardly any change in …Women are disproportionately in low paid work compared to men so, in the absence of rationing effects on their … employment, they should benefit the most from minimum wage policies. This study examines the change in the gender wage gap around …

prime-age labor incomes of both men and women. Income persistence involving women (daughters and/or mothers) has risen … timing in women's spike in labor force attachment. Parental assortative mating is also an important factor in both countries …

The predominant part of the literature states that women are more likely to donate to charitable causes but men are … paper examines gender differences in giving focusing on the distribution of amounts donated and the probability of giving … using UK micro-data on individual giving to charitable causes. Results indicate that most women are more generous than men …

competitiveness. All of these aspects are analyzed with respect to the influence of age and gender, and we also consider the role of …

research is an examination of the important role that women play in both sending and destination areas. This chapter addresses … various aspects of the relationship between women and migration, including key ways in which non-migrant women are affected by …

This article argues that a systematic integration of gender into labor economics courses based on standard textbooks is … students to the importance of gender differences in economic outcomes. We provide a prototype of such a course, and we show how … gender-aware content and pedagogical tools can complement a course based on a standard textbook or set of articles. We also …

How great an effect does the structure of income taxes have on women’s labour market participation? This issue is … investigated using a discrete choice static labour supply model for married couples in Ireland. The model incorporates fixed costs … from the 1994 wave of the Living in Ireland Survey. The results are used to analyse the labour supply effects of a move to …

than serving a particular socio-economic group. We exploit this fact to test whether the gender composition of schools … single-sex schooling reduces the gap. If anything, the gender differential is larger for children educated in single … ability or by the use of instrumental variables to control for potentially endogenous school choice. -- gender maths gap …