-Murphy-Pierce decomposition analyses. On the one hand, over the past few decades, Chinese women have staged a 'quiet revolution' in education and … cognitive abilities, and especially after the large-scale higher education expansion since 1999, women have outperformed men in … younger women, as well as a higher rate of returns on education for women, the gender earnings gap is still large: 20 …

attributed to women's relative deficit with respect to human capital endowment, an equally large part stems from the fact that … female human capital is less valued in terms of wages. The gender wage gap narrowing stems mainly from a reduction in gender … inequality with respect to the returns to human capital in terms of wage which favours women. Nevertheless, women improved their …

attributed to women's relative deficit with respect to human capital endowment, an equally large part stems from the fact that … female human capital is less valued in terms of wages. The gender wage gap narrowing stems mainly from a reduction in gender … inequality with respect to the returns to human capital in terms of wage which favours women. Nevertheless, women improved their …

Women typically earn less than men. The reasons are not fully understood. Previous studies argue that this may be … because (i) women 'don't ask' and (ii) the reason they fail to ask is out of concern for the quality of their relationships at …. Using matched employer-employee data from 2013-14, the paper finds that the women-don't-ask account is incorrect. Once an …

wages of migrant household heads. We also find that the presence of children below the age of six has no impact on the …

closes because women's wages rise with the share female managers in the workplace while men's wages fall. Panel and … we find a raw gender wage gap (GWG) in hourly wages of around 0.18-0.21 log points. The regression-adjusted gap is around … proposition that women are more likely to be paid equitably when managers have discretion in the way they reward performance and …