The human capital explanation of sex differences in wages is that women intend to work in the labor market more … intermittently than men, and therefore invest less. This lower investment leads to lower wages and wage growth. The alternative …

evidence of upward bias in the estimated returns to schooling. Bias-corrected estimates of the effect of marriage on wages, for …

Several studies find that there is little sex gap in wages at labor market entry, and that the sex gap in wages emerges … wages at labor market entry, and (ii) the emergence of the sex gap in wages with time in the labor market reflects … the starting sex gap in wages (or absence of a gap), and the differences in "returns" to experience. We then estimate …

evidence of upward bias in the estimated returns to schooling. Bias-corrected estimates of the effect of marriage on wages, for …

We use panel data on Israeli manufacturing plants to test two explanations of lower wages and lower productivity in …

-discriminatory explanations for sex differences in labor markets, in particular differences in wages and occupational choice. Although there is …

wages that remains unexplained after including a wide array of proxies for productivity. What is absent from the residual … - is any directly observable measure of productivity with which to adjust differentials in wages in trying to infer whether … be compared with wages. Any of the variables that differ across groups and are unobserved in the residual wage regression …

are sometimes paid less than equally-qualified white male workers. In particular, the relationship between starting wages …, current performance, and race and sex is studied. OLS regressions of starting wages on current performance--which is measured … some time after the beginning of employment--indicate that minority workers are paid lower starting wages than white …