observed narrowing of the gender wage gap is entirely driven by declining gender wag gaps within, rather than between …, occupations. A decomposition exercise reveals that while explained factors have become more important contributors to the gender … unobservables, i.e. discrimination, is likely to have declined over time. Finally, technological change as measured by job tasks …

disparities across male and female occupations are due to gender devaluation. …

This study exploits longitudinal employer-employee matched data to investigate gender differences in the probability to … workers with high effort levels above the 60th residual earnings percentile, we find large gender differences in promotion …

beauty on wages leads to smaller beauty premium for women. -- wages ; distribution ; physical appearance ; discrimination …

This paper focuses on estimating the magnitude of any potential weight discrimination by examining whether obese job … possible form of labor market discrimination is obese women. Despite making more job applications and engaging more in job … ; discrimination ; employment ; labor demand …

This paper exploits data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to re-examine the gender wage gap in Germany on … the basis of inequality-adjusted measures of wage differentials which fully account for gender differences in pay … distributions. The inequalityadjusted gender pay gap measures are significantly larger than suggested by standard indicators …