A number of important jurisdictions have recently enacted salary history bans to combat the gender pay gap. This paper … the gender pay gap and the biases cited by proponents of bans: some firms consistently but unconsciously under … and wage gap persists. In contrast, bans may reduce the gender wage gap, but do so at the expense of high-performing women …

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 …

gender. While some women (mostly black and Coloured) overwhelmingly fill low-paying jobs, others (mostly white and Indian … gender segregation and stratification, with women and men entering occupations previously dominated by the other gender … process. Distinct worker characteristics by gender, such as education, location, or age, cannot explain existing segregation …

This article comments on an article by Steven Horwitz, who argued that most of the gender pay gap can be explained by … to discriminate on the basis of gender in some cases, and provides an example …

This paper analyzes the historical evidence of the gender gap in employment and wages in Mexico. We construct … formal market and wages for each gender and quarter, correcting selection biases. Based on these results, we implement a … Blinder-Oaxaca (1973) and Mulligan-Rubinstein (2008) decomposition to estimate the gender gap in wages. Our results suggest …

We extend the conventional framework for measuring segregation to consider stratification of occupations by gender, i … indices. Our empirical analysis using this approach shows that the decline over time in occupational gender segregation in the … US has been accompanied by a deeper, longer reduction in gender stratification. We further investigate the role of …

While the official gender pay gap figure is 9.1% for full-time workers, the pay gap between men and women aged 22-39 is …

Despite an influx of new gender pay gap data – ranging from negative gaps, to gaps exceeding 60% – the government’s new …

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