differ only in their gender. Jobs recommended uniquely to the male and female profiles in a pair differ modestly in their … more stereotypically female content than men's. Using our experimental design, we can conclude that these gender gaps are … generated primarily by content-based matching algorithms that use the worker's declared gender as a direct input. Action …

In the 1960s, two landmark statutes--the Equal Pay and Civil Rights Acts--targeted the long-standing practice of … employment discrimination against U.S. women. For the next 15 years, the gender gap in median earnings among full-time, full …

-19 pandemic. Across both institutions, we observe a significant and substantial gender concealment gap: women are less …

Using data from the largest online job portal in Nigeria, we document: (a) gender differences in salary offers for jobs … accordance with this relative shift in applications, in 2016, the salary-offer gender gap almost disappeared …

Using linked employer-employee data from Brazil, we document a large gender pay gap due to women working at lower … suggests that amenities are important for both men and women, that compensating differentials explain half of the gender pay … pay, amenities, and hiring. We provide a constructive proof of identification of all model parameters. The estimated model …

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 …

per year. In the decades since, the rate of gender wage convergence has stalled to less than one-third of its previous … value. An outstanding puzzle in economics is "why did gender wage convergence in the US stall?" Using an event study design … explain 94% of the reduction in the rate of gender wage convergence that is unaccounted for after controlling for changes in …