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 …

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 …

Previous studies explain the gender earnings gap by gender differences in choosing competitive and higher-paying jobs … study, we use a novel identification strategy to investigate: 1) how the gender earnings gap arises from individuals' self … rewarding tasks reduces the gender earnings gap without hurting the benefits of men …

female wage discrimination. The limitations of previous approaches such as the classic Oaxaca-Blinder and the recent … directly applicable to the measurement of discrimination. As an illustrative example we measure female wage discrimination in …

A large body of empirical evidence documents the gender variation in labour market outcomes. A major factor that … contributes to persistent gender gaps in labour market performance is women’s traditional role in the household. Child … a motherhood penalty. We highlight how the fundamental gender-driven career/family conflict faced by workers in the …

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

cent of the total wage variance, 60 per cent of the gender wage gap, and 40 per cent of the gap between workers in the … the monopsony model in explaining these results. Differences in labour supply elasticities across gender and income groups …

that explore the practical importance of our analytic results. -- Decompositions ; discrimination …

Motivated by models of worker flows, we argue in this paper that monopsonistic discrimination may be a substantial … factor behind the overall gender wage gap. On matched employer-employee data from Norway, we estimate establishment … wage premium identify less wage elastic labour supply facing each establishment of women than that of men. Workforce gender …

experience delayed marriage, higher divorce, and lower earnings. Results corroborate the theory's implication that marriage and … earnings and marriage penalties …