Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence concerning wage differentials and the existence of gender … the stochastic frontier approach as an alternative method to measure the relevance of gender discrimination. This … results show that a significant part of the gender wage gap in all the countries analyzed is not attributable to differences …

In a series of studies written during the 1980s Bob Gregory and his co-authors compared the gender wage gap in … different gender wage gaps but rather the rewards for these endowments. They concluded that country-specific factors, especially … the institutional environment, were important in explaining the gender wage gap. This study updates Gregory's work by …