The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...

In this paper, we investigate the extent of the effects of children and child-related time out of the labor market on the gender wage gap in France, with special attention to its impact on the accumulation and composition of human capital. Measuring this impact requires detailed information on...

[spa] Una medición de la discriminación en la diferencia de salario entre hombres y mujeres Las diferencias de salario entre hombres y mujeres se deben a multiples factores. Primero, los empleos ocupados no tienen las mismas caracterlsticas: las duraciones medias de trabajo de las mujeres son...

[spa] En 2002, la diferencia salarial media mensual de mujeres y hombres es de 25,3 %, es decir, apenas un punto menos de lo que era en 1990. Además, los componentes de esta disparidad, bien sean estructurales, es decir, resultado de las diferencias en las características productivas y en los...

In this paper, we propose an analysis of the monthly wage gap in ten of the EU countries (Austria Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain and the United-Kingdom). We use a standard methodology in order to measure the part of the gap which results from male-female...

Though intergenerational mobility is a classic field of research in France, the social trajectories of immigrants? descendants are a relatively new topic of interest. Using data from the Study of Family History survey combined with the 1999 census, this article analyses the occupational...