female employees if women are less driven by pecuniary considerations in their choice of employers than men. Employers may … exploit this to increase their profits at the detriment of women’s wages. Empirically, it is indeed found that women’s labour …

of women's fertility on their human capital accumulation. We find that the curvature in the wage profile is determined …. We estimate that the difference in wages among prime age women would be approximately 3% higher if the relationship …

so far separate strands of literature, on women's alleged greater tolerance for lower wages ("contented female worker … previous studies by not simply assessing whether women are as likely as men to perceive their pay as unfair. Instead, we use an …-related characteristics. Overall, women are as likely as men to perceive a fair wage as unfair - or an unfair wage as fair. However …