This study examines the gender wage gap between male and female workers in the US using a cross-section from the … Current Population Survey (CPS) It shows that the extent of gender segregation by both industry and occupation is … appropriate techniques in the presence of such strong gender segregation . To secure even greater precision we repeat the matching …

This study examines the gender wage gap in the US using two separate cross-sections from the Current Population Survey … (CPS). The extensive literature on this subject includes papers which use wage decompositions to divide gender wag gaps … simply being female on wages. However, to form a complete picture, one should consider that gender wages are affected by a …

market participation through gender lens. Results show that women’s education has a U-shaped relationship with paid work …In this paper, we make an attempt to understand whether low labour market returns to education in India are responsible … participation. The probability to participate in the paid labour market shows an increasing trend with education levels higher than …

matching approach, which, to our knowledge, has never been used in this field. Instead of looking at the gender gap along the …

In this paper, we report returns to education in India using unit level data from the nationwide Periodic Labour Force … workers, compared to those with no formal education, an additional year of literacy education increases yearly return by 2 ….3%, primary education by 3.4%, middle school education by 3.7%, secondary school education by 4.5%, higher secondary education by …