This paper studies the wage differentials between the public and private sectors in Spain, as well as its distribution … across different educational levels and by gender. To do so, the well-known Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition of mincerian wage … regressions is applied for both sectors, breaking down the (public-private) wage gap into a component explained by differences in …

shock leads to larger wage increases for high-skilled workers than for low-skilled workers, due to the smaller matching … frictions of the former (SAM-asymmetry channel). Moreover, the increase in capital demand amplifies this wage divergence due to …

share of females reducing the wage level. These results are compatible with a theory where job promotion is an important … factor of wage increases: if more females are to be mentored, less promotion slots are available for males, but also the …

gender wage gap patterns in the EU since the onset of the Great Recession. We show that male selection into the labour market …

Two very different approaches are used to explore the relation between market orientation and gender wage differentials … in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in … calculating internationally consistent gender wage residuals in the first place. By comparing these two very different methods of …

We show that providing publicly available wage information in vacancies, so-called external pay transparency, can … reduce the gender wage gap. There is an increasing interest in pay transparency policies as a tool to combat unequal pay. We … exploit a reform of Austria's Equal Treatment Law to evaluate how providing wage information in vacancies affects the gender …

This paper uses detailed information from a large wage survey in 2006 to analyze the gender wage gap in the performance … is determined in a more competitive fashion than the other wage components, one would expect, in principle, to find a low …