This paper examines gender differences in labor market outcomes for hard-to-employ youth in the US and West Germany … absolute terms, correcting for purchasing power. The relatively high employment rates of less educated German youth combined …-German difference in employment rates …

gender gap in this hazard rate, since low earners were more likely to leave employment, and were disproportionately female … points relative to male wages, but female employment has fallen 5 percentage points more than male employment. Using the … most important determinant of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than half of the …

anticipate considerably lower earnings in subsequent years, even under the assumption of continuous employment after leaving … the observed gender differences in expected earnings profiles. We also find no evidence that gender differences in …

We study the impact of selection bias on estimates of the gender pay gap, focusing on whether the gender pay gap has … find robust evidence that, after controlling for selection, there were large declines in the raw and the unexplained gender … and actual labor market experience. However, we note that substantial gender wage gaps remain. In 2015, at the median, the …

The decline in the employment-population ratios for men and women over the period 2000-2007 prior to the Great … Recession represents an historic turnaround in the evolution of U.S. employment. The decline is disproportionately concentrated … experienced quite different wage and employment trends. Neither taxes nor transfers appear likely to explain the employment …

wages, the gender wage gap and the gender composition of employment. The focus is the pay equity initiative of the Canadian …

This paper studies the interaction between the decrease in the gender pay gap and the stagnation in the careers of … gender pay gap. The whole decline in the gap originates from (i) newer worker cohorts who enter the labor market with smaller …-than-average gender pay gaps and (ii) older worker cohorts who exit with higher-than-average gender pay gaps. As predicted by the model …