We develop an equilibrium model of the labor market to investigate the joint evolution of gender gaps in labor force …, especially college-educated women. Consistent with these results, we see a widening of the gender wage gap at the lower end of …. The growth of appliances acted to widen the gender wage gap and the decline of fertility to narrow it. We also trace …

attainment relative to men's, the mean gender earnings ratio between 1978 and 1992 remained at 65%. The authors analyze household … narrowing of the gender gap. The results strongly suggest that large losses experienced by women in unmeasured gender …-specific factors--which could reflect the effects of labor market intermittency, growing gender differences in unobserved skills, or an …

This paper explores gender differences in the career paths of immigrant and native parents before and after childbirth … using Spanish administrative data and an event study specification. I find an important gender pay gap emerging after … native-immigrant differences in potential drivers behind the gender pay gap. After childbirth, mothers reduce their labor …

This paper studies the role of within- and between-firm effects on the gender wage gap (GWG). Using linked employer …

This study examines gender differences in the earnings of young adults in the 1980s and 1990s. We determine changes in … the gender gap over time in the middle, the tails, and the variability of the earnings distribution. We employ data from … findings reveal that once education, occupation, and marital status are taken into account gender differences in earnings (in …

Using harmonised data from the European Union Household Panel, we analyse gender pay gaps by sector across the wages … distribution for ten countries. We find that the mean gender pay gap in the raw data typically hides large variations in the gap … men and women. We find that, first, gender pay gaps are typically bigger at the top of the wage distribution, a finding …

Since the early seventies, hundreds of authors have calculated gender wage differentials between women and men of equal … productivity. Consequently, estimates for the gender wage gap have been published for the most diverse countries at different … points in time. This metastudy provides a quantitative review of this vast amount of empirical literature on gender wage …

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 …

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 …