This paper focuses on re-examining the gender wage gap and the potential role that reservation wages play. Based on two … waves of rich data from the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey we examine the importance of gender differences in reservation … wages to explain the gender gap in realized wages for a sample of newly unemployed individuals actively searching for a full …

This paper studies the gender wage gap by educational attainment in Italy using the 1994-2001 ECHP data. We estimate …. Then, we decompose the gender wage gap across all the wage distribution and isolate the part due to gender differences in …

This paper studies the gender wage gap by educational attainment in Italy using the 1994–2001 ECHP data. We estimate …. Then, we decompose the gender wage gap across all the wage distribution and isolate the part due to gender differences in …

of gender equity. Based on data from the Household Budget Survey 2001/02, the present paper investigates gender pay … the difference in the earnings of the average man and the average woman are due to gender discrimination. A deeper … analysis using quantile regressions reveals that gender discrimination is a major explanation behind the gender pay gap in the …

Selection correction methods usually make assumptions about selection itself. In the case of gender wage gap estimation …

This study develops a job-signaling model to study the gender wage gap for occupations in which both cognitive and non … gender wage gap occurs when working women divert time away from sociability capital accumulation to meet family …

We document that a large share of the gender pay gap in Brazil is due to women working at lower-paying employers. At … interpret these facts, we develop an empirical equilibrium search model with endogenous gender differences in pay, amenities …-fifth of the gender pay gap, that there are significant output and welfare gains from eliminating gender differences, and that …

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 …

Northern Ireland forms an important outlier to the established international pattern of a pronounced gender pay gap in … gender pay gap in Northern Ireland and make comparisons to the rest of the UK. Despite the relatively common institutional … and policy context, the gender pay gap in Northern Ireland is found to be far smaller than in the rest of the UK. This can …

We investigate differences in gender wage gaps between foreign-owned and domestically-owned firms in Poland, a country … show that according to standard estimates of adjusted gender wage gaps, these differences are much larger in the foreign …-owned firms have considerably higher levels of gender segregation, and because the OLS estimates of the adjusted gender wage gaps …