- including absenteeism - to set wages. Since men are absent from work because of health and shirking reasons, while women face an … seniority, as employers learn more about their workers' true productivity. Finally, we calculate the earnings cost for women …

segregation where women have limited access to high wage occupations. This paper first defines a class of segregation indexes that …

differentials between white non-Hispanic males and women, Hispanics and African-Americans. Women's and Hispanics' relative earnings …

ante players' abilities. It is found that a larger prize spread encourages women to increase effort, even when controlling …

There is evidence that women are more likely to live in poverty than men. Given the fact that the poor are more likely … to use welfare, it becomes useful to consider welfare usage among women. A-priori welfare programs are set up in such a … possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare …

Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women …, if women who are employed tend to have relatively high-wage characteristics, low female employment rates may become … consistent with low gender wage gaps simply because low-wage women would not feature in the observed wage distribution. We …

lecture I briefly survey some recent studies aiming to explain why apparently identical women and men receive such different … differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps. …