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 …

-Blinder approach and decompose the gender gap in educational achievement into endowment and response components. Our estimation relies …This paper analyzes the source of the gender gap in third grade numeracy and reading. We adopt an Oaxaca …

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 …

we find a raw gender wage gap (GWG) in hourly wages of around 0.18-0.21 log points. The regression-adjusted gap is around …

This paper focuses on re-examining the gender wage gap and the potential role that reservation wages play. Based on two … waves of rich data from the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey we examine the importance of gender differences in reservation … wages to explain the gender gap in realized wages for a sample of newly unemployed individuals actively searching for a full …

' hiring and pay-setting policies on the gender earnings gap in Canada. Consistent with the existing literature and following … proportion of women hired at high-wage firms, or sorting – and pay-setting policies – due to differences in pay by gender within …

We study the gender pay gap in the labor market for CEOs by analysing 1,174 outsider CEO successions over the past … marked gender differences in the pay structure: namely, women CEOs receive a lower proportion of fixed to total compensation …. The model also suggests that a more balanced gender composition in companies' boards can help women close the gap in pay …

We analyze the impact of women's managerial representation on the gender pay gap among employees on the establishment … share of women in management significantly reduces the gender pay gap within the firm. An increase in the share of women in … first-level management e.g. from zero to above 33 percent decreases the adjusted gender pay gap from a baseline of 15 …

This paper surveys gender and ethnic wage gaps in 18 Latin American countries, decomposing differences using matching …-employed workers and those in small firms. Ethnic wage differences are greater than gender differences, and educational attainment …

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 …