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 …

pay discrimination. Unbiased decompositions can be obtained when the Oaxaca-Blinder wage equation is augmented by the … considerably larger shares of the gender wage gap than does the standard decomposition. …

We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working … in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is … - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to three percentage-points lower for hourly wages in female …

pay discrimination. Unbiased decompositions can be obtained when the Oaxaca-Blinder wage equation is augmented by the … considerably larger shares of the gender wage gap than does the standard decomposition. …

We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working … in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is … - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to three percentage-points lower for hourly wages in female …

characteristics, is this gap explained by segregation of women in low-wage firms, or by gender inequality within a given firm? To … between-firm (sorting) and within-firm heterogeneity (bargaining) on the gender wage gap. We use a two-way fixed effect wage … model, in which firm fixed effects differ between male and female employees to account for within-firm gender differences in …

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 …

In addition to discrimination, market power, and human capital, gender differences in risk preferences might also … contribute to observed gender wage gaps. We conduct laboratory experiments in which subjects choose between a risky (in terms of … more likely than men to select the secure job, and these job choices accounted for between 40% and 77% of the gender wage …

plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender pay gap. Controlling for match fixed effects we …Using linked employer-employee panel data for West Germany that include direct information on the competition faced by … find that intensified competition significantly lowers the unexplained gap in plants with neither collective agreements nor …

plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender pay gap. Controlling for match fixed effects we …Using linked employer–employee panel data for West Germany that include direct information on the competition faced by … find that intensified competition significantly lowers the unexplained gap in plants with neither collective agreements nor …