This paper uses cross-country data to examine the long-term effect of trade openness on the gender gaps in wages …, education, political empowerment and health. Key findings are: trade openness since 1970 reduced the gender gaps in wages and … openness on the gender wage gap remained observable in later years (1980, 1990 and 2000), although it decreased in degree over …

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 …

We develop a two sector competitive equilibrium model that rationalizes the gender pay gap by the coexistence of two … on their physical endowments. We prove the existence of a competitive equilibrium where the gender pay gap arises. The … an ineffective way to reduce the gender pay gap …

We develop a model to study the impact on gender gaps in participation and wages of a liquidity constraint that … gender gaps in the labour market. In this framework, an extension of paid maternity leave duration has ambiguous effects on … gender inequality. In contrast, child care subsidies, which require higher taxes, and loans, which do not, unambiguously …

driving the gender wage gap, in particular compensating wage differentials. These results inform an analysis of sex pay … significant determinant of the gender wage gap. Taste-based discrimination mechanisms appear to be significant as well, but small …