We examine the impact of sibling gender composition on women's adult earnings. Using data from Add Health, we find that …

This paper documents gender disparities in labor earnings for sixty-four countries around the world. Disparities are … partially attributed to gender differences in observable socio-demographic and job characteristics. These characteristics are … used to match males and females such that gender earnings disparities are computed only among individuals with the same …

This paper surveys gender earnings gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent … the first to the second period but remained almost unchanged between the second and the third. The gender earnings gap … the extremes, possibly due to a gender-equalizing effect of the minimum wage. Moreover, the gap is more pronounced for low …

This paper uses detailed information from a large wage survey in 2006 to analyze the gender wage gap in the performance …-pay (PP) component of total hourly wages and its contribution to the overall gender gap in Spain. Under the assumption that PP … gender gap in PP. However, this is not what we find. After controlling for observable differences in individual and job …

The closing of the gender wage gap is an ongoing phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, research has been … women to that of men. In this study, we use a new approach for analyzing changes in the gender pay gap that uses direct … substantial fraction of the closing of the gender wage gap. Our evidence suggests that these task changes are driven, at least in …

on the probability of employment in many, though not all, occupations in ways that differ by gender. Consequently, men … gender wage gap that is unexplained …