This paper examines gender differences in perceptions of the fairness of one's own pay. Theoretically, we draw on two … employees. They might be more aware of the societal debate about gender discrimination and "aim higher" in setting their …

Measuring gender inequality and women's empowerment is essential to understand the determinants of gender gaps … perspective to the current debate on measuring gender inequality in human development. As a starting point, we develop a simple … macroeconomic model of the interdependence between human development and gender inequality. We then introduce a biometric indicator …

inequities. We then go on to consider possible explanations for the continuing gender differences and some of the empirical …

This chapter provides a bird's eye view of the literature on gender discrimination. The presentation of studies is … grouped into five parts. Part 1 presents evidence of gender discrimination measured via various dimensions in various … countries and contexts. Part 2 discusses in detail the gender wage gap - one of the most important measures of gender …

In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this … returns and focus especially on those incorporating pyschological factors as an explanation of the gender gap. Research areas … differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps …

Using matched employer-employee data from the 2004 and 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Surveys (WERS) for Britain … we find a raw gender wage gap (GWG) in hourly wages of around 0.18-0.21 log points. The regression-adjusted gap is around … half that. However, the GWG declines substantially with the increasing share of female managers in the workplace. The gap …

This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … effects on occupational sorting, the gender wage gap, and fertility …

This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM college studies …. Using Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that … peer environment has lasting effects on occupational sorting and the gender wage gap …

This paper investigates how female leadership affects the gender wage gap in the U. S. federal government. Using a ….1% increase in female wages and a 6.7% decline in male wages. Also, the gender of an executive (a higher level supervisor) has a … lesser impact on wages than the gender of regular supervisors. However, the gender of an executive has a greater impact on …