We estimate the distribution of life cycle wages for cohorts of prime-age men and women in the US. A quantile selection … model is used to consistently recover the full distribution of wages accounting for systematic differences in employment …, permitting us to construct gender- and education-specific age-wage profiles, as well as measures of life cycle inequality within …

This paper looks at the gender wage gap throughout the transition from communism to capitalism and throughout a time of … participation for women. Although the regime was formally egalitarian, the gender attitudes were conservative and the raw gender … wage gap was as large as 41% at the end of the communist period in Estonia. The large gender wage gap under communist rule …

This paper studies the effect of firms'export activity on the gender wage gap among its workers. Using matched employer …, which reinforces female comparative advantage and reduces (widens) the gender wage gap in white-collar (blue …-collar) occupations. Our results, identified out of the variation in wages within firm-worker pairs, are robust to controlling for a …

this span the overall gender earnings gaps dropped about 7 percentage points, while the unexplained component dropped …This paper complements the findings of Atal, Ñopo and Winder (2009) on gender and ethnic wage gaps for 18 Latin … American countries circa 2005 by analyzing gender wage gaps for the same countries between circa 1992 and circa 2007. During …