The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of wage compression for the gender wage gap in Sweden during the … the changes in the returns to human capital and unobserved characteristics have contributed to reductions in the gender … mitigated and/or the gender gap in unobserved skills was reduced. Between 1981 and 1991 there is a small increase in the gender …

-wage income in the form of social insurance payments. The gender-wage gap is wider among workers with more than 12 years of …

affects the gender wage gap. The paper finds very small premia for male workers and large and significant premia for female … that approximately one third of this gender gap results from lack of access to formal sector employment. …

Since the early seventies, hundreds of authors have calculated gender wage differentials between women and men of equal … productivity. Consequently, estimates for the gender wage gap have been published for the most diverse countries at different … points in time. This metastudy provides a quantitative review of this vast amount of empirical literature on gender wage …

We investigate skill mismatch and its impact on gender differences in wage gap and in returns to education in Sweden … (overeducation), while men are more likely to have less (undereducation).Over- and undereducation contribute far more to the gender … wage gap than years of schooling and work experience. In decompositions, adjusting for skill mismatch decreases the gender …

Policies to reduce the gender pay gap feature prominently on the political agenda and interventions in the labor market … are frequently proposed, claiming a persistent wage gap. We examine the change of the gender wage gap in Austria between …