This paper surveys gender and ethnic wage gaps in 18 Latin American countries, decomposing differences using matching …-employed workers and those in small firms. Ethnic wage differences are greater than gender differences, and educational attainment …

We investigate whether the Big Five Personality Dimensions contribute to explaining gender and migrant wage gaps by … using a linked employer-employee dataset. We expand the scarce literature concerning personality traits and gender wage gaps … associations between the Big Five and wages. The magnitude of this relationship varies across the gender and the migratory status …

In this paper I present a methodology that uses matching comparisons to explain gender differences in wages. The … approach emphasizes gender differences in the supports of the distributions of observable characteristics and provides useful … insights about the distribution of the unexplained gender differences in pay. The proposed methodology, a non …

Estonia has the highest gender wage gap in the European Union and the highest degree of gender segregation by …

This study examines the gender wage gap in the US using two separate cross-sections from the Current Population Survey … (CPS). The extensive literature on this subject includes papers which use wage decompositions to divide gender wag gaps … order to address the difficulties of comparing like with like this study uses a number of different matching techniques to …

them to look for better jobs offered by more female friendly firms. -- assortative matching ; gender gap ; glass ceiling … assessment of the assortative matching patterns arising in the period 1996-2005 controlling for firms and individual … characteristics. We find strong differences between men and women in assortativity. While positive assortative matching in job …

The discriminatory component of the gender wage gap was found to be significant and to decrease over time by previous … (PS) and nearest-neighbour (NN) matching techniques. As results, the discriminatory component was confirmed to be … offset in 65% by a subsequent increase. Gender discrimination was heterogeneous throughout occupational categories, being …

This paper uses new micro data from the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) to examine the gender gaps … started to be considered a market economy (2003). We find that the gender pay gap is higher in the top half of the … sector. The fall in the gender gap in the lower part of the distribution from 1986 to 2003 is explained partially by the …

Using data from the 2012 PISA across 56 countries, this study examines the link between societal gender inequalities … and the gender test score gap in mathematics. We employ a novel two-stage empirical strategy in which the first stage … involves decomposing the gender mathematics gap into a part that is explained by gender differences in observable …

This paper uses new micro data from the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) to examine the gender gaps … started to be considered a market economy (2003). We find that the gender pay gap is higher in the top half of the … the private sector. The fall in the gender gap in the lower part of the distribution from 1986 to 2003 is explained …