, albeit only for women. Women in a better than normal mood tend to exhibit mood-congruent behavior, i.e. they weight … probabilities of gains and losses relatively more optimistically. Men's probability weights are not responsive to mood state. We … find that the application of a mechanical decision criterion, such as the maximization of expected value, immunizes men …

in intermittent labor force participation between men and women accounts for 47 percent of the contribution to the wage …

Since the early seventies, hundreds of authors have calculated gender wage differentials between women and men of equal …

period 1968-1991. We find that the effects of changes in the wage structure on women's wages have varied over time and have …'s relative wage gains, as compared to 1974. At this time, women gained in relative wages mainly because discrimination was … had partly counteracting effects. Changes in industry wage differentials have systematically worked against women, while …

workers. The paper also finds that, on average, Latin American women earn 30 percent less than men with similar skills and …

Women in developed economies have made major inroads in labor markets throughout the past century, but remaining gender … hours and relative wages for a wide cross-section of developed economies. It reviews existing work on the factors driving …

though it does not alter the result that the estimated returns to education are smaller for women than for men in Sweden. … 1993 to 2002.Women are more likely to have more formal education than what is normally required for their occupation … (overeducation), while men are more likely to have less (undereducation).Over- and undereducation contribute far more to the gender …

We examine the upward labor income mobility of men and women in Germany using the GSOEP Cross National Equivalent File … posterior probability that men's upward income mobility is greater than women's, we find that men have overall greater upward … men's mobility is higher than women's. …

industrial enterprises. Women's average wages lag behind men's wages by 11%, and this result is robust to the inclusion of non … education (28%), mainly because of the higher relative wages received by skilled men in foreign-invested firms. Women's average … discrimination is thereby rejected. Equal average wages between men and women are found among firms located in China's Special …