This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing …

Using the European Community Household Panel, we investigate gender differences in training participation over the …

differentials between sectors by gender and between men and women by sector are carried out. Results indicate that when controlled … public administration, there is a large gender wage-gap in the private sector in favor of men. Private returns to schooling …

National Insurance Institute. The paper focuses on gender differences in work history patterns and, within each gender …?s labor market attachment is stronger than is generally presumed. Gender differences in employment interruptions are greater …

sample of professionals is decomposed into several subsamples: men and women and within each gender a distinction is made …). Comparisons by gender and ethnicity can then be made. Characteristics (endowments) and wage structures of the four groups are …

was partially offset by changes in the distribution of these characteristics. Between-gender inequality fell with respect … to both samples. In contrast to within-gender inequality, this was largely explained by changes in the returns to the …

and Program Participation (SIPP) to investigate gender and race disparities in home ownership, value, and equity. These … value or home equity. Once households have entered the housing market, differences across gender, race and family type are … associated with differences that are larger than those based solely on gender and are as large as those associated solely with …

In this paper, we use quantile regression decomposition methods to analyze the gender gap between men and women who … selection is a serious issue. In addition to shedding light on the sources of the gender gap in the Netherlands, we make two … unobservables. Our decompositions show that the majority of the gender log wage gap is due to differences between men and women in …

reversed. The present paper explores the sources of the gender differential in training incidence using Labour Force Survey …