gender wage gap between 1985 and 2010 can be explained by a reduction in occupational segregation between the genders. The … attributed to changes in (selection corrected) skill prices. The impact of movements in skill prices on the reduction in gender …

We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated … by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, children's gender affects not only the … based on the gender of the other twin. We find that the gender of the sibling influences both men and women, but in a …

attainment, whereas the presence of sex-based grammatical gender, and its association with gender bias, has a significant adverse …

technologies (ICT) skills and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills yield significant positive returns … labor market, according to gender, across four Latin American countries. We find that information and communication … for both men and women. However, there is a significant gender gap that favors men on the STEM returns. There is also a …

Although women earn approximately 50% of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) bachelor's degrees, more than … 70% of scientists and engineers are men. We explore a potential determinant of this STEM gender gap using newly collected … assigned female math and science professors on occupation and postgraduate education. We find that, among high-ability female …

-- human capital ; returns to education ; gender inequality …

firstly estimated by gender. It is found that the subjects in which women are relatively over-represented (e.g. Education … graduates contributes to the gender pay gap, and the reasons underlying their distinct educational choices. The case of Greece … is examined due to the fact that it is an EU country with historically large gender discrepancies in earnings and …

to education are higher for women than men in both countries; the gender gap has worsened in 2008, but more so for … in Turkey. -- returns to education ; Mincer equation ; gender ; Palestine ; Turkey …This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period …