Using a rich and comparable micro-data set, we analyse international differences in gender pay gaps in the private … sector for a sample of five European economies: Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Italy and Spain. Using different methods, we … discrimination influencing female occupational and industrial distributions. We find significant impacts of those latter factors on …

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 …

wages of natives in the U.S. Yet, despite the significant degree of occupational segregation by gender regardless of workers … of immigration on native workers. Instead, using data from Spain, where the immigrant population has risen from 4 percent … the task specialization and occupational distribution of natives of the same gender. …

confined to issues of sex discrimination; rather it is of relevance for all labor markets where labor heterogeneity is …

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 …

. Further on we can show that this kind of gender-specific discrimination can be found particularly in leisure-time clubs and … for a discrimination of women in filling management positions in the volunteer sector. It turns out that women have a … gender specific differences in filling volunteer management positions. …

that discrimination against Jews in salaried professional occupations declined in the post-WWII period earlier in College …

and gender gaps in outcomes. The technique cannot be used directly, however, if the outcome is binary and the coefficients …

In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the … sources. We show that our gender-specific crosswalk more accurately captures the trends in occupational segregation that are … their predecessors and/or encountering less labor market discrimination; during the 1970s and 1980s, however, there were …