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"Stories about women in the workforce permeate newspapers, magazines--virtually all media formats devoted to news and commentary in contemporary society. Women's movement into the paid workforce has transformed their lives--and those of their families-and has in many ways reshaped society. This...
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the gender pay gap is positively associated with the fertility rate, positively associated with the husband-wife age gap …The gender wage gap varies across countries. For example, among OECD nations women in Australia, Belgium, Italy and … important in gender wage gap studies that employ individual data. This paper explicitly concentrates on labor market …
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The wage premium for high-skilled workers in the United States, measured as the ratio of the 90th-to-10th percentiles from the wage distribution, increased by 20 percent from the 1970s to the late 1980s. A large literature has emerged to explain this phenomenon. A leading explanation is that...
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How important is mastering information and communication technologies (ICT) in modern labor markets? We present the first evidence on this question, drawing on unique data that provide internationally comparable information on ICT skills in 19 countries. Our identification strategy relies on the...
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