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 …

This study compares average earnings and productivities for men and women employed in roughly 200,000 Chinese …-wage income in the form of social insurance payments. The gender-wage gap is wider among workers with more than 12 years of … productivity falls behind men's productivity by a larger margin than the gap in earnings, and the null-hypothesis of earnings …

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 …

, therefore, use a unique example to examine this question empirically: the analysis of gender wage differentials. Here, the … Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition represents a standard research method that compares male and female earnings, holding …

An important line of recent literature has found gender differences in attitudes toward competition, with men being …. This paper examines the effect of information on the gender gap in tournament entry. We present experimental evidence that … gender gap in tournament entry. …