, nationally representative Bulgaria Integrated Household Survey, I examine whether gender discrimination is an important factor … determining the gap in wages between men and women and the extent to which gender discrimination affects wage inequality. I model … workers; or it may be the result of rewarding non-economic characteristics such as gender. Using data from the 1995 …

Average gender pay gaps have absorbed the interest of economists for many years. Morerecently studies have begun to … explore the degree to which observed gender wage gapsmight differ across the wages distribution. The stylised facts from these … studies,summarised in the first part of the paper, are that the gender pay gap in Europe istypically increasing across the …

-scale field experiment conducted in the US auto repair industry to study the existence and structure of gender-based price … discrimination in service markets. Women receive price quotes that are 2% (over 10 dollars) higher than those received by men. These … differences disappear when women signal low search costs, suggesting statistical rather than taste-based discrimination. Price …

Public policies that aim to achieve gender equality, improve work-life balance or combat harassment may have economic …. The indicators reveal the high degree of heterogeneity in terms of the legislation in the various related areas, with non-discrimination … estimates show a positive relationship between the volume of legislation passed in the areas of interest, such as non-discrimination …

empleo como de participación laboral femenina. ; Public policies that aim to achieve gender equality, improve work …

on different labour market groups? Two wage indicators (the gender pay gap and …no change in the gender wage gap in the full-time labour market (equal to 10.5 …per cent), a 12.6 percentage point convergence in the gender wage gap in the …

and discrimination to explain the narrowing gender earnings gap from 1968 to 1993. The paper proves the model is …: statistical discrimination accounts for 36 percent of the observed gender earnings gap in the mid-to-late 1970s, declining to 22 … percent in the mid-to-late 1980s. Gender differences in preferences are comparatively less important: the gap would have been …

taste-based discrimination and structural discrimination may have persisted and possibly increased over time. Gaps in credit …