This paper investigates occupational segregation by gender in the Finnish private sector during the period 1995 … genders have decreased during the investigation period occupational segregation by gender is still high in the Finnish labour … industry. Segregation is much higher in the male-dominated industries than in the female-dominated or in the gender …

Unequal division of labor within families is often mentioned as one of the main factors behind the gender wage gap …. However, the research that explicitly focuses on the mechanisms through which the family type affects women’s wages is … on women’s investments in human capital, such as work experience. The results show that even though mothers’ lower level …

lower in the 1980s, but increased in the early 1990s to approximately the same level as for men. Men and women fared equally … of a broad set of personal and job-related background characteristics to the gender-specific wage equations has a minor …. 720. – experience ; gender ; returns to education ; sector ; selection bias …