This paper uses an event study approach to estimate the impact of children on the gender earnings gap in Australia. We … persistent impact on the gender earnings gap, reducing female earnings by 55 per cent, on average, in the 5 years following …

discrimination, and policy responses. Yet there is still a considerable lack of consensus on all three of these issues. I would argue … some evidence consistent with these explanations, this evidence does not rule out an important role for discrimination in … generating sex differences in labor markets. I also believe that the lack of consensus regarding the existence of discrimination …

pay discrimination. Unbiased decompositions can be obtained when the Oaxaca-Blinder wage equation is augmented by the … considerably larger shares of the gender wage gap than does the standard decomposition. …