This paper focuses on re-examining the gender wage gap and the potential role that reservation wages play. Based on two … waves of rich data from the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey we examine the importance of gender differences in reservation … wages to explain the gender gap in realized wages for a sample of newly unemployed individuals actively searching for a full …

An important underlying determinant of wage discrimination, as well as the gender wage gap is the way the labor market … individual labor market outcomes and the way attractiveness affects gender wage differentials. Further research is needed on the … transmission and the effect this has on the gender wage gap. …

Wage decompositions suggest that a large share of the gender wage gap can be explained by differences in occupation and … alleviate the gender gap. We test this hypothesis by examining the impact of the 2011 Pay Transparency Law in Austria, which … Austrian job board with social security spells that record the gender of new hires. To compare the pay level of vacancies …

Germany has a large persistent Gender Pay Gap of 21%; although this gap is not constant across occupations. The … question arises why some occupations have large Gender Pay Gaps while others have only small gaps. Using data from the … uncover the relationship between occupational characteristics and the Gender Pay Gap. To do so, I apply a two-step approach …

This paper analyzes the impact of market liberalization on gender earnings differentials and discrimination against … women in urban China at the beginning of the 90s. The observed stability in the overall gender earnings gap between 1988 and …

hiring wage gap has narrowed over the past two decades, it still accounts for over half of the overall gender pay gap in … findings suggest that gender pay gap reporting laws that focus exclusively on the overall gaps within employers miss an …

This paper examines gender differences in perceptions of the fairness of one's own pay. Theoretically, we draw on two … employees. They might be more aware of the societal debate about gender discrimination and "aim higher" in setting their …

gender wage gaps among Regular Wage/Salaried (RWS) workers in India, both at the mean, as well as along the entire wage … distribution to see "what happens where". The gender log wage gap at the mean is 55 percent in 1999-2000 and 49 percent in 2009 … that, in both years, the bulk of the gender wage gap is unexplained, i.e. possibly discriminatory. They also reveal that …

We show that choices in competitive behavior may entail a gender wage gap. In our experi ments, employees first choose … pie size the employee has generated, the remuneration scheme chosen, and the employee's gender. Employers then decide how … the pie will be split, as in a dictator game. Whereas employers do not discriminate by gender when tournaments are chosen …