This paper advances the hypothesis that the EUS crisis was caused by German unification. The unification has implied a …

gender of the job loser. Finally, we document that parenthood magnifies the gender gap sharply: while fathers of young …

lower tail. We further document substantial gender differences in average earnings and inequality over the life-cycle. While …

wage inequality along the dimension of skill, it diminishes the wage inequality associated with both gender and nationality …

The closing of the gender wage gap is an ongoing phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, research has been … women to that of men. In this study, we use a new approach for analyzing changes in the gender pay gap that uses direct … substantial fraction of the closing of the gender wage gap. Our evidence suggests that these task changes are driven, at least in …

This paper examines gender differences in labor market outcomes for hard-to-employ youth in the US and West Germany …

We consider the gender pay gap in the United States. Both gender-specific factors, including gender differences in …, importantly influence the gender pay gap. Declining gender differentials in the U.S., and the more rapid closing of the gender pay … gap in the U.S. than elsewhere, appear to be primarily due to gender-specific factors. However, the relatively large …