employees. They might be more aware of the societal debate about gender discrimination and "aim higher" in setting their …This paper examines gender differences in perceptions of the fairness of one's own pay. Theoretically, we draw on two … paradox"), and on perceived discrimination among ethnic minorities ("integration paradox"). Empirically, we depart from …

information on employers, to measure the relative bargaining power of men and women and assess the impact of the gender gap in … bargaining strength on the male-female wage gap. We show that a model with additive fixed effects for workers and gender … perform a simple decomposition by assigning the firm-specific wage premiums for one gender to the other. Second, we relate the …

explain sexual orientation differences in earnings, gay men would need to be less competitive than other men and lesbian women … data, we show that competitiveness is a significant predictor of earnings. Differences in competitiveness can account for a … significant portion of the gay earnings penalty, but cannot explain the lesbian premium. …

Using PSID microdata over the 1980-2010, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender … explained little of the gender wage gap, while gender differences in occupation and industry continued to be important. Moreover …, the gender pay gap declined much more slowly at the top of the wage distribution that at the middle or the bottom and by …

plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender pay gap. Controlling for match fixed effects we … few females in their workforces. Our findings are in line with Beckerian taste-based employer wage discrimination that is …

plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender pay gap. Controlling for match fixed effects we … few females in their workforces. Our findings are in line with Beckerian taste-based employer wage discrimination that is …

This paper focuses on re-examining the gender wage gap and the potential role that reservation wages play. Based on two … waves of rich data from the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey we examine the importance of gender differences in reservation … wages to explain the gender gap in realized wages for a sample of newly unemployed individuals actively searching for a full …

plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender pay gap. Controlling for match fixed effects we … few females in their workforces. Our findings are in line with Beckerian taste-based employer wage discrimination that is …

plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender pay gap. Controlling for match fixed effects we … few females in their workforces. Our findings are in line with Beckerian taste-based employer wage discrimination that is …

Using PSID microdata over the 1980-2010, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender … explained little of the gender wage gap, while gender differences in occupation and industry continued to be important. Moreover …, the gender pay gap declined much more slowly at the top of the wage distribution that at the middle or the bottom and by …