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Korenman, Sanders - 1990

We explore several problems in drawing causal inferences from cross-sectional relationships between marriage, motherhood, and wages. We find that heterogeneity leads to biased estimates of the "direct" effects of marriage and motherhood on wages (i.e., effects net of experience and tenure);...

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Do Firms Respond to Gender Pay Gap Transparency?

Bennedsen, Morten - 2019

We examine the effect of pay transparency on gender pay gap and firm outcomes. This paper exploits a 2006 legislation change in Denmark that requires firms to provide gender dis-aggregated wage statistics. Using detailed employee-employer administrative data and a difference-in-differences...

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Pay Transparency and the Gender Gap

Baker, Michael - 2019

We examine the impact of public sector salary disclosure laws on university faculty salaries in Canada. The laws, which enable public access to the salaries of individual faculty if they exceed specified thresholds, were introduced in different provinces at different times. Using detailed...

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Gender Wage Gaps and Worker Mobility : Evidence from the Garment Sector in Bangladesh

Menzel, Andreas - 2019

Data from 70 large export-oriented garment manufacturers in Bangladesh show that gender wage gaps are similar to those found in higher-income countries. Among production workers, women's wages are 8 percent lower. We show that by combining short administrative panels, survey data from a...

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Information and the Persistence of the Gender Wage Gap : Early Evidence from California's Salary History Ban

Hansen, Benjamin - 2020

Aiming to reduce the gender wage gap, several states and cities have recently adopted legislation that prohibits employers from asking about previously earned salaries. The advocates of these salary history bans (SHBs) have suggested pay history perpetuates past discrimination. We study the...

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Flexible Wages, Bargaining, and the Gender Gap

Biasi, Barbara - 2020

Does flexible pay increase the gender wage gap? To answer this question we analyze the wages of public-school teachers in Wisconsin, where a 2011 reform allowed school districts to set teachers' pay more flexibly and engage in individual negotiations. Using quasi-exogenous variation in the...

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The Gender Gap Among Top Business Executives

Keller, Wolfgang - 2020

which firm-level temporal flexibility and corporate culture can explain these gender differences. Although we find that … women tend to select into firms with temporal flexibility and a female-friendly corporate culture, there is no evidence that … this sorting drives the gender pay gap. However, we do find evidence that corporate culture affects pay gaps within firms …

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Gender Pay Gap across Cultures

Burns, Natasha; Minnick, Kristina; Netter, Jeffry M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We employ a cross-country sample to examine whether cultural differences help explain gender compensation variations across corporate executives. The results show that the cultural differences, which are embedded in societies from long prior to the compensation decisions, provide significant...

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The Gender Pay Gap : Micro Sources and Macro Consequences

Morchio, Iacopo; Moser, Christian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Using linked employer-employee data from Brazil, we document a large gender pay gap due to women working at lower-paying employers with better nonpay attributes. To interpret these facts, we develop an equilibrium search model with endogenous firm pay, amenities, and hiring. We provide a...

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The Gender Gap in Career Trajectories : Do Firms Matter?

Card, David E.; Devicienti, Francesco; Rossi, Mariacristina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

The gender wage gap rises with experience. To what extent do firm policies mediate this rise? We use administrative data from Italy to identify workers' first jobs and compute wage growth over the next 5 years. We then decompose the contribution of first employers to the rise in the gender wage...

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