Striving for gender equality presents major challenges but the benefits are vast, ranging from reduced conflict, both … within and between communities, to higher economic growth. Unfortunately, Israel's gender wage gap remains one of the highest … among developed countries, despite a growing reverse gender gap in educational attainment. Investigating the gender wage gap …

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 …

. The main contribution of this study is the estimation of a switching endogenous regression model that corrects the … entrance of the individual in the public sector labor market. The public-private wage gap is calculated by gender as labor …

differential is sensitive to the choice of quantile and that the pattern of premia varies with both gender and skill. In all …

Using a rich and comparable micro-data set, we analyse international differences in gender pay gaps in the private … discrimination influencing female occupational and industrial distributions. We find significant impacts of those latter factors on … gender differentials. However, the magnitude of their effects varies across countries. …

We estimate the relationship between wages and occupational gender segregation in Sweden. Because of high wage equality … in Sweden compared to the U.S., we expect a lower wage penalty of job femaleness in Sweden than in the U.S. Our results … supports this hypothesis. We also investigate how the unexplained gender wage gap vary across occupations and find that this …