to examine this question empirically: the analysis of gender wage differentials. The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition … findings. -- rhetoric ; gender wage differential ; discrimination …

Since the early seventies, hundreds of authors have calculated gender wage differentials between women and men of equal … productivity. This meta-study provides a quantitative review of this vast amount of empirical literature on gender wage … data restrictions have the biggest impact on the resulting gender wage gap. Moreover, we are able to show what effect a …