We analyse impacts of the rising labor force participation of women on the gender wage gap. We formulate and … occupations. Consistent with this we find a narrowing of the gender wage gap towards the upper end of the wage distribution and an … increase in the gender wage gap at the low end. Demand side trends favoured women and this attenuated the supply …

We analyse impacts of the rising labor force participation of women on the gender wage gap. We formulate and … occupations. Consistent with this we find a narrowing of the gender wage gap towards the upper end of the wage distribution and an … increase in the gender wage gap at the low end. Demand side trends favoured women and this attenuated the supply …

We develop an equilibrium model of the labor market to investigate the joint evolution of gender gaps in labor force …, especially college-educated women. Consistent with these results, we see a widening of the gender wage gap at the lower end of …. The growth of appliances acted to widen the gender wage gap and the decline of fertility to narrow it. We also trace …

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 …

In this paper, we study the link between globalization of firms and gender inequality. Specifically, we examine how the … need for interpersonal contacts in trade and gender-specific differences in negotiations are related to the gender wage gap …. Our key finding is that export of goods that are intensive in interpersonal contacts widens the gender wage gap. The …