Erikssoon, Björn; Karlsson, Tobias; Leunig, Tim; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
a simple model of sex-based discrimination. Instead, the gender wage gap can be decomposed into two components. First … the gender wage gap as a reflection of men's greater strength and correspondingly higher productivity. This paper … investigates the gender wage gap in cigar making around 1900. Strength was rarely an issue, but the gender wage gap was large. Two …