women to that of men. In this study, we use a new approach for analyzing changes in the gender pay gap that uses direct …The closing of the gender wage gap is an ongoing phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, research has been … measures of job tasks and gives a comprehensive characterization of how work for men and women has changed in recent decades …

returns for women. Taken alone, the developments related to education would have increased the gender wage gap significantly … labour market experience have a neutral influence on the gender wage gap. Women improved their relative position concerning …This paper analyses the extent to which gender differences in human capital contribute to explaining the observable …

significantly reduce the gender test score gap. A remaining gap of 14% of a standard deviation in test scores is unexplained …. -- Mathematics test score gap ; gender ; share of female teachers ; self-confidence …

We study how trade liberalization affects formal employment across gender. We propose a theoretical mechanism to … increase the probability of working formally for both men and women within 4-digit manufacturing industries. The formalization … women, and especially for men. However in the service sectors, the probability of working formally decreases for low …

labor supply choices. This is mainly due to the fact that East German women are much more attached to the labor market. …

women. I discuss the potential implications of these findings regarding the effect of labour market regulation on gender … legislation. I study here how gender wage inequality differs across formal and informal jobs in Brazil. The raw gender wage gap is … and female selection processes. First, women have better observable characteristics than men and the female advantage is …

Most existing analyses on the gender wage gap (GWG) have neglected the establishment as a place where inequality … the individual and consider the importance of the workplace to explain gender pay differentials. That is, we first provide … Germany. The innovation of our research is that we do not just compare average male and female wages (of specific groups of …