This paper proposes a new decomposition method to understand how gender pay gaps arise within firms. The method …

. The study does not find evidence of other gender differences in the hiring process …

This paper examines the role of industrial and occupational segregation in explaining the gender wage gap and its … evolution in Georgia between 2004 and 2015. It first documents the declining trends observed in the gender wage gap in Georgia … gender wage gap and its decline by decomposing the gender wage gap into the within-category and between-category components …

protection from workplace discrimination. Countries with more gender egalitarian legal regimes generally have higher levels of … comprehensive overview of gender differences in property ownership in the developing world. Using Demographic and Health Survey data … from 41 developing countries, this paper seeks to fill this gap, by investigating the extent of gender gaps in the …

. The evidence to date suggests that there are significant negative consequences of legal gender discrimination on women …-intended policy interventions to address legal gender discrimination in certain domains. The paper concludes with a discussion of the …This paper reviews the empirical literature on the existence and impact of gender discriminatory laws on women …

The role of employer discrimination in widening labor market differences between men and women has been hypothesized … and investigated in different settings. Using a field experiment, this paper examines the presence and magnitude of gender …-based discrimination by employers at the point of screening in Tunisia. The study sent out 1,571 fictitious and substantially identical …