. The strongest impact on the distribution of labour earnings would take place in countries with high gender pay gaps for … equal work and small gender gaps in employment and hours worked (mainly Central and Eastern European countries), whereas … only marginal effects are identified in countries with large gaps in hours worked and gender segregation in the type of …

The official calculation for the 2018 gender pay gap is at a record low of 8.6% for full-time workers, with a … negligible gender pay gap for women aged 22-39. This gap increases later in life, with evidence from the United States that the … earners. Furthermore, claims that it will take more than 50 years to close the gender pay gap use an even higher starting …

Now into the second year of mandated gender pay gap reporting for large organisations, it has become increasingly clear …

Since April 2017 UK employers with over 250 employees have been required to publicly report their gender pay gap each … year. We exploit this recent source of panel data on employer-level gender pay gaps to provide new insights for the … established literature on the gender pay gap based predominately on employee information. More specifically, we explore the …

reports on the gender pay gap. Using an event-study design, we show that the policy had no discernible effects on male and … female wages, thus leaving the gender wage gap unchanged. The effects are precisely estimated and we rule out that the policy … narrowed the gender wage gap by more than 0.4 p.p.. Moreover, we do not find evidence for wage compression within …

the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …

strong evidence that all three factors help narrow the gender gap in industry wage premia. Other characteristics that we have … finding is that Affirmation Action, employment growth, and profitability each leads to a narrowing of the gender gap in … measure to reduce the gender wage gap in the 1980s. The difference in results is likely attributable to the fact that the …

Since April 2017 UK employers with over 250 employees have been required to publicly report their gender pay gap each … year. We exploit this recent source of panel data on employer-level gender pay gaps to provide new insights for the … established literature on the gender pay gap based predominately on employee information. More specifically, we explore the …

This paper examines the ongoing impact of gender pay gap transparency legislation using a sudden COVID-19-induced …, reporting organisations have a 6% lower gender pay gap a year later. This is driven by a relative increase in females in the top … hypothesis that ongoing reporting is most effective in organisations with weaker pre-existing pressures to narrow their gender …

show that these policies narrowed the gender pay gap significantly by 2 p.p., driven almost entirely by an increase in … reveal pay history, and use this framework to explain my empirical findings on disclosure behavior and gender pay gap …