We use a first-hand linked employer-employee dataset representing the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender … unexplained gender gap, mainly in the upper parts of the wage distribution. Finally, results suggest that employers place greater … existence of sex-specific skills of their workers, which could then widen the within-firm gender wage gap. …

We use a first-hand linked employer-employee dataset representing the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender … unexplained gender gap, mainly in the upper parts of the wage distribution. Finally, results suggest that employers place greater … existence of sex-specific skills of their workers, which could then widen the within-firm gender wage gap …

Our paper makes a first attempt to address the impact of skills and skill use in the analysis of the gender wage gap … with regard to wage regressions of men as well as women. When we take skills into account in the gender wage gap analysis …, the unexplained part of the gender wage gap is reduced by almost 4 percentage points along the whole wage distribution …

In this paper, we explore the recent gender wage gap trends in a sample of European countries with a new approach that … gender wage gap declined in the majority of the European countries. Similar to the U.S. experience, a part of this decline is …, the changes in returns to brain and brawn skills had a widening effect on the gender wage gap in Southern European …

Using a multi-dimensional measure of occupational mismatch, we report distinct gender differences in match quality and … changes in match quality over the course of careers. A substantial portion of the gender wage gap stems from match quality …

that there are gender differences in match quality and changes in match quality over the course of careers. In particular …. However, the direction of the gender effect differs significantly by education. Only females among the college educated are …

-driven categorization of required skill words and construct gender associations of different skill categories using word embeddings. Next … observed gender wage gaps. We also find that large firms require a more extensive range of skills, implying that …

This paper updates the major study by Macpherson and Hirsch (1995) of the effect of the gender composition of … of the gender wage gap.An updated longitudinal analysis using the CPS data is also provided. This examination of two … advantage of offering a longer panel. Analysis of the former suggests the reduction in gender composition effects observed for …

This paper analyses the gender wage gaps by education throughout the wage distribution in Spain using individual data … component of the gender gap not explained by different characteristics. Our main findings are two-fold. First, in contrast with …