for the norm that “women and men shall have the right to equal pay for work of equal value”. We find that the gender wage … are less (not more) satisfied with life in liberal communities where the gender wage gap is smaller. These findings are … consistent with the idea that norms regarding the appropriate relative pay of women compared to men are shaping gender …

The overall gender wage gap fell from .31 to .15 between 1986 and 2003 following the transition to a free market in … fall in the gender wage gap. I test this implication using data from the Hungarian Wage and Earnings Survey covering 1986 … within-firm endowment-adjusted gender wage gap, making use of the fact that I am able to follow firms over time. The …

Using a rich and comparable micro-data set, we analyse international differences in gender pay gaps in the private … gender differentials. However, the magnitude of their effects varies across countries. …

Using harmonised data from the European Union Household Panel, we analyse gender pay gaps by sector across the wages … distribution for ten countries. We find that the mean gender pay gap in the raw data typically hides large variations in the gap … men and women. We find that, first, gender pay gaps are typically bigger at the top of the wage distribution, a finding …

differs between genders and that of the gender pay gap differs between sectors. The analysis shows that little none of the … gender earnings gap in both the public and private sector can be explained by differences in observable characteristics …