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 …

gendered moral rationality, complemented by the Rawlsian concept of justice as fairness (implying compensation for the … of what is recognized in mainstream theory and policy as work done by women. Thus, the traditional gender roles, with the … also need to go beyond standard models to interpret the intrahousehold gender inequities. We do not gain much insight from …

international data set on the gender wage gap, which is constructed via a meta-analysis of existing studies. The findings show that … both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. …

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of wage compression for the gender wage gap in Sweden during the … period 1968-1991. We find that the effects of changes in the wage structure on women's wages have varied over time and have … the changes in the returns to human capital and unobserved characteristics have contributed to reductions in the gender …

A unique examination strategy in first year microeconomics courses is used to test for gender differences in …

the impact of obesity on wages (Cawley 2004), using body mass index (BMI) as the continuous group variable. The results … suggest that body weight does have a negative impact on wages for white women, but the impact decreases for higher BMI levels …

industrial enterprises. Women's average wages lag behind men's wages by 11%, and this result is robust to the inclusion of non …-wage income in the form of social insurance payments. The gender-wage gap is wider among workers with more than 12 years of … education (28%), mainly because of the higher relative wages received by skilled men in foreign-invested firms. Women's average …

unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …

Two very different approaches are used to explore the relation between market orientation and gender wage differentials … in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in … calculating internationally consistent gender wage residuals in the first place. By comparing these two very different methods of …