performance and their labor market income. We exploit the within-school, cohort-by-cohort variation in the gender composition of …, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic … performance and change in major. And in the long run it did not produce any difference in income or labor market outcomes. We do …

higher wages. We also enrich our analysis with a gender dimension. Unconditional quantile regressions and decomposition …

Women consistently work less in the labor market and earn lower wages than men. While economic empowerment of women is … educational attainment or skills. Gender is a further dimension in which the impacts of trade liberalization can differ. In a … globalizing world it is important to understand whether and how trade policy can contribute toward enhancing gender convergence in …

This paper focuses on re-examining the gender wage gap and the potential role that reservation wages play. Based on two … wages to explain the gender gap in realized wages for a sample of newly unemployed individuals actively searching for a full … factors. Our results suggest that the gender wage gap disappears once we control for reservation wages. We also find a close …

and is found to be similar across countries. As at the end of the 1980s, the gender wage gap is larger in Russia where … earnings reach a maximum at a lower age than in China. The association between education and income in China has increased to …

This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination … endogeneity issues through a diff GMM-IV estimator. Our models also test for gender-based discrimination. Empirical results for …

This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination …) and address firm fixed effects and endogeneity issues through a diff GMM-IV estimator. Our models also test for gender …

An important underlying determinant of wage discrimination, as well as the gender wage gap is the way the labor market … individual labor market outcomes and the way attractiveness affects gender wage differentials. Further research is needed on the … transmission and the effect this has on the gender wage gap. …

vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher … wages. However, in some countries where labor markets are characterized by employment growth, skill shortages and a good … the wages of various subsections of the labor force, in particular of minorities and disadvantaged groups. In this paper …