survey. The sample of professionals is decomposed into several sub-samples: within each gender, a distinction is made … determination and occupational employment. Our results suggest that earnings differentials mostly reflect differences in the type of … interpretation in terms of a certain degree of occupational segregation, rather than mere wage discrimination. …

This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure … show that the gender difference in the probability of getting a job increases along the wage ladder from 9% to 50%. Females …

This study examines the gender gaps in average hourly wages facing private sector full time employees in the Canadian … narrowing the gender wage gap, though notably little progress was made in Newfoundland and Alberta. Much of the variation across … provinces in the gender gap is eliminated once we account for gender differences in individual and job characteristics in each …

This paper examines the impact of privatization on gender discrimination in China across firms with different … technology intensities. Using a comprehensive firm-level survey, the paper identifies gender wage-productivity differentials by … workers in low technology industries. Time varying coefficient results suggest that the improvements in gender outcomes in …

A unique employer-level data set is used to provide insight not only to the degree of discrimination that may exist … , but also to the source of that potential discrimination. Results from decomposing individual wage equations indicate that … aggregated, however, the pay, job placement, and hiring discrimination estimates yield an overall discrimination estimate of a 6 …

an entirely female occupation entails a loss in individual earnings of twelve percent in Britain, six percent in … disparities across male and female occupations are due to gender devaluation. …

results show that discrimination plays a more important role in explaining gender wage differentials than in explaining ethnic … of workers into an endowment component and a discrimination component. The standard decomposition technique does not take … modified, in order to take into account the contribution of segregation to the endowments and the discrimination components. It …

sample of professionals is decomposed into several subsamples: men and women and within each gender a distinction is made …). Comparisons by gender and ethnicity can then be made. Characteristics (endowments) and wage structures of the four groups are … occupations. Wage differences are then examined and decomposed into 3 components: Endowments (human capital), discrimination and …

information on employers, to measure the relative bargaining power of men and women and assess the impact of the gender gap in … bargaining strength on the male-female wage gap. We show that a model with additive fixed effects for workers and gender … perform a simple decomposition by assigning the firm-specific wage premiums for one gender to the other. Second, we relate the …

In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females …-paid jobs can be detected and quantified. We estimate the gender relative probability of getting any given job position for full …