In this article I analyze the changes in the gender wage gap in the western region, eastern region and in reunified …-Blinder (1973) decomposition, found in Smith and Welch (1989). I conclude that most of the increase in the gender wage gap occurred …, potential experience and tenure compared men, and that the increasing gender wage gap was mainly due to changes in the gender …

the US, separately by gender and marital status. Measurement differences are netted out by using a harmonized empirical … regions, consistent with complementarity in spouses' leisure in the US versus substitution in spouses' household production in …