women's wages, and consequently, to the formation of the gender wage gap. To derive the relative contribution of gender … specific wage inequalities caused by the parenthood to the overall gender wage gap, we provide a modification of standard … expectations, the findings show that most of the gender wage inequality is due to the positive wage gap between men who do and do …

This paper proposes a new decomposition method to understand how gender pay gaps arise within firms. The method …

considerably larger shares of the gender wage gap than does the standard decomposition. …

This paper looks at the gender wage gap throughout the transition from communism to capitalism and throughout a time of … participation for women. Although the regime was formally egalitarian, the gender attitudes were conservative and the raw gender … wage gap was as large as 41% at the end of the communist period in Estonia. The large gender wage gap under communist rule …

This paper evaluates the gender wage gap among wage workers along the wage distribution in Georgia between 2004 and …). We find that the gender wage gap decreases along the wage distribution, from 0.64 log points to 0.54 log points …. Endowment differences explain between 22 percent and 61 percent of the observed gender wage gap, with the explained proportion …

gender earnings gap. As educational attainment is cohortdependent, an Age-Period-Cohort analysis is most appropriate in our … have caught up and often even outperform men, substantial gender differences in earnings persist in all countries. These … demonstrate that the role of education in explaining the gender earnings gap has been limited and even decreased over cohorts …

We analyze the link between the presence of female managers and the size of the firm-level gender pay gap, looking … gender wage inequality is associated with higher shares of female workers, but not female managers. …