This paper examines gender discrimination in the Australian graduate labour market, using data from the Graduate … is applied. A smaller gender wage gap is found for university graduates than that reported for all workers in earlier … studies. It is shown, however, that the gender wage gap widens with the age at graduation. This pattern is argued to reflect …

We use HILDA data from 2001 - 2006 to analyse the source of the gender wage gap across public- and private-sector wage … distributions in Australia. We are particularly interested in the role of gender segregation within sector-specific occupations in … explaining relative wages. We find that, irrespective of labour market sector, the gender wage gap among low-paid, Australian …

We study the impact of gender quotas on the acquisition of human capital. We assume that individuals’ formation of … gender-specific quotas. In the absence of quotas, women consider their chances of getting top positions to be lower than menś …. Gender quotas discourage men who are less efficient in forming human capital, and encourage women who are more efficient in …

We document gender sorting of candidates into gender-typed jobs at the point of initial application to a company. At … offer unique insight as they are uncontaminated by screeners’ steering of candidates toward gender-typed jobs. Even in the … absence of steering, we find clear patterns of gendered job choices that line up with gender stereotypes of job roles …

We study the impact of gender quotas on the acquisition of human capital. We assume that individuals' formation of … gender-specific quotas. In the absence of quotas, women consider their chances of getting top positions to be lower than men …. Gender quotas discourage men who are less efficient in forming human capital, and encourage women who are more efficient in …

We propose a management career model where females face a gender-specific career hurdle. We show that female managers … product market competition. When the intensity of product market competition increases, hirings and wages for female managers …

We document recent trends in gender equality in employment and wages in Spain. Despite an impressive decline in the … gender gap in employment, females are still less likely to work than males: about 76 % of working age males and 63 % of … in fertility. The gender gap in wages, after controlling for worker and job characteristics as well as for selection, is …

, “sticky floors” related to social norms, gender stereotyping and discrimination account for 40% of the gender wage gap, while …, additionally need to prioritise equal pay and pay transparency laws, measures to address gender stereotyping, competition in … of gender wage gaps with a view to devising effective policies to reduce them. The findings suggest that, on average …

-industry labour mobility and the gender wage gap. Using a regression discontinuity design, we show that as a firm becomes compliant … its female inflow diversity and the smaller its gender wage gap. This relationship is significantly stronger among the …