We show that controlling for subject of degree explains a significant part of the male/female gender wage differential …) of the overall male/female gender wage gap, and an even larger amount of the part explained by factors entered into wage …

. Our findings therefore challenge the widely held view that children are the primary drivers behind the long-run gender gap …

We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working … in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is … - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to three percentage-points lower for hourly wages in female …

We use Brazilian matched employer-employee data to provide new evidence on gender disparities in labor market sorting … physical risk, despite sorting almost identically on financial risk. To understand what factors might explain these gender … entire gender wage gap in Brazil …

This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist … countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender pay gap has not exhibited, in general …, an upward tendency over the transitional period to which available data relate. Most of the gender pay gap is ascribed to …

Using two rounds of panel firm- and worker-level data, this paper studies the gender gap in monetary and non …: the gender gap in total income between workers who do not have children is 11.7% while it is 37.6% among workers who have … and overtime work than men who have children do. Meanwhile, there is no statistically significant gender difference in …

hiring wage gap has narrowed over the past two decades, it still accounts for over half of the overall gender pay gap in … findings suggest that gender pay gap reporting laws that focus exclusively on the overall gaps within employers miss an …

The gender pay gap increases with age: While the average gross hourly wage gap between male and female 30-year-olds is …