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 …

common to attribute them to discrimination by the employer that is rooted in prejudice against female workers. Yet recent … empirical evidence suggests that, to a large extent, the gaps reflect “monopsonistic” wage discrimination—that is, employers …

We develop a two sector competitive equilibrium model that rationalizes the gender pay gap by the coexistence of two … mechanisms: a statistical discrimination mechanism linked to a stereotype belief in which women engage in child … on their physical endowments. We prove the existence of a competitive equilibrium where the gender pay gap arises. The …

Using panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), we document that gender differences in wages … almost double during the first 20 years of labor market experience and that there are substantial gender differences in … employment and hours of work during the life cycle. A large portion of gender differences in labor market attachment can be …

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 …

significant determinant of the gender wage gap. Taste-based discrimination mechanisms appear to be significant as well, but small …This paper presents a model where wage differences between men and women arise from taste-based discrimination and … imperfect labour market, deriving a test for the presence of taste-based discrimination and of other firm-level mechanisms …