affected by gender in Britain; men display behaviour characteristic of competitiveness whilst women do not. …

A number of authors have documented an increase in earnings or income inequality in New Zealand during the late 1980s … earnings data and extends it to analyse changes in inequality between men and women. Across the total working-age population … returns were responsible for part of the increase. Among the subset of workers, earnings inequality increased significantly …

This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth …, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79). Its focus is upon mid-career promotion and wages … promoted in the private sector (and no less likely in the public sector); that wages are increasing in promotion, and the …

substantial gender earnings gaps, and evidence of glass ceilings, in both sectors. The earnings gaps amongst the higher income …This paper investigates gender differences between the log wage distributions of full-time British employees in the …

, interestingly, not found to be relevant in the Australian context. Substantial gender earnings gaps (and glass ceilings) are …We use quantile regression and counterfactual decomposition methods to explore gender gaps across the earning … established, with these earnings gaps found to be predominantly related to women receiving lower returns to their observable …

earnings of immigrants as compared to native workers, in particular to test whether there is any systematic variation in the … labor market performance of immigrants across gender related to duration in the destination, schooling, age at immigration …, country of origin, or country of destination. We find a significant negative effect of immigrant status on individual earnings …

This paper reviews Jacob Mincer?s contributions to the analyses of earnings and the distribution of earnings through … theoretical literature on the distribution of earnings in the pre-Mincer period, and then discusses his analysis of human capital … and earnings developed in his 1957 doctoral dissertation and 1958 Journal of Political Economy (JPE) article. Further …

differentials between sectors by gender and between men and women by sector are carried out. Results indicate that when controlled … for observed characteristics and sample selection, for men, public administration wages are higher than private sector … wages except at the university level where the wages are at par. State owned enterprise wages for men are higher than …

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 …

This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure … show that the gender difference in the probability of getting a job increases along the wage ladder from 9% to 50%. Females …