attributed to women's relative deficit with respect to human capital endowment, an equally large part stems from the fact that … female human capital is less valued in terms of wages. The gender wage gap narrowing stems mainly from a reduction in gender … inequality with respect to the returns to human capital in terms of wage which favours women. Nevertheless, women improved their …

-Murphy-Pierce decomposition analyses. On the one hand, over the past few decades, Chinese women have staged a 'quiet revolution' in education and … cognitive abilities, and especially after the large-scale higher education expansion since 1999, women have outperformed men in … younger women, as well as a higher rate of returns on education for women, the gender earnings gap is still large: 20 …

attributed to women's relative deficit with respect to human capital endowment, an equally large part stems from the fact that … female human capital is less valued in terms of wages. The gender wage gap narrowing stems mainly from a reduction in gender … inequality with respect to the returns to human capital in terms of wage which favours women. Nevertheless, women improved their …

. We estimate that the difference in wages among prime age women would be approximately 3% higher if the relationship … of women's fertility on their human capital accumulation. We find that the curvature in the wage profile is determined …

Women typically earn less than men. The reasons are not fully understood. Previous studies argue that this may be … because (i) women 'don't ask' and (ii) the reason they fail to ask is out of concern for the quality of their relationships at …. Using matched employer-employee data from 2013-14, the paper finds that the women-don't-ask account is incorrect. Once an …

This paper analyzes the consequences of the spacing of births for women's subsequent labor income and wages. Spacing … births in longer intervals may allow women to re-enter the labor market between childbearing events, thereby avoiding … income over a long time period after second birth. Also long-run wages are positively affected, with a more pronounced effect …

This paper studies the causal effect of the timing of first birth on highly educated women's career outcomes using … findings, my results suggest that a one-year delay has a significantly negative effect on both income and wages. The negative … effects might partly be explained by child spacing; motherhood delay induces women to have the second child more closely …

wages of migrant household heads. We also find that the presence of children below the age of six has no impact on the …

so far separate strands of literature, on women's alleged greater tolerance for lower wages ("contented female worker … previous studies by not simply assessing whether women are as likely as men to perceive their pay as unfair. Instead, we use an …-related characteristics. Overall, women are as likely as men to perceive a fair wage as unfair - or an unfair wage as fair. However …