The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce … barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and … states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, we explore the influence of women in top …

wage distributions in the presence of covariates and sample selection separately for highly and low educated men and women … the remunerations of the similar characteristics. We find that women are penalized especially if low educated. When we … control for sample selection induced by unobservables, the penalties for low educated women become even larger, above all at …

discrimination model, we find that men and women have the same wage at the start of their career, but that female wages grow at a …

women in 1990 underestimated the true, selection-corrected gap, i.e., the gap we would have expected to see had all of these … women been employed in 1990. In this paper, we use the NLSY97 to update his analysis. The observed median log wage gap … considerable extent by changes in the distribution of educational attainment across young white and black women. …

women in 1990 underestimated the true, selection-corrected gap, i.e., the gap we would have expected to see had all of these … women been employed in 1990. In this paper, we use the NLSY97 to update his analysis. The observed median log wage gap … considerable extent by changes in the distribution of educational attainment across young white and black women. …

other women and men, and find that transsexuals earn more than women and less than men. Second, we compare transsexuals … before and after transition using worker fixed effects models, and find a fall in earnings for men who become women and a … smaller rise (if any) in earnings for women who become men. These earnings patterns, which hold for annual as well as hourly …

who were selected through a random draw. A larger number of women in evaluation committees does not increase either the …