plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender pay gap. Controlling for match fixed effects we …

returns are differentially greater for men and account for a substantial proportion of the gender earnings gap. A comparison … women may also narrow the gender earnings gap. …

A comprehensive descriptive analysis of gender wage differences over a long time period is missing for West Germany … well as life-cycle and birth cohort effects, we go beyond conventional decomposition techniques of the average gender wage … gap. The paper provides some stylized facts of the level and dynamics of the gender wage gap from 1975-1995. The empirical …

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. …

, the gender pay gap declined much more slowly at the top of the wage distribution that at the middle or the bottom and by … the importance of these factors suggests that they account for a small to moderate portion of the gender pay gap …Using PSID microdata over the 1980-2010, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender …

The paper examines the gender wage gap in Italy during the 2008-2012 economic crisis, using cross-sectional EU …-SILC data. The gender wage gap increased from 4% in 2008 to 8% in 2012, when for most European countries the gap decreased …. After 2010 the growth of the Italian gender wage gap (and its unexplained component) was particularly high in the upper part …

We show that controlling for subject of degree explains a significant part of the male/female gender wage differential …) of the overall male/female gender wage gap, and an even larger amount of the part explained by factors entered into wage …

plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender pay gap. Controlling for match fixed effects …

of what is recognized in mainstream theory and policy as “work” done by women. Thus, the traditional gender roles, with …. We also need to go beyond standard models to interpret the intrahousehold gender inequities. We do not gain much insight … home. We need a concerted move toward sensitization of gender issues and scrutiny entailing a gender audit at every level …

We analyse gender wage inequalities in Italy in the mid-1990s and in the mid-2000s. In this period important labour … gender wage gap by estimating wage distributions in the presence of covariates and sample selection and by counterfactual … microsimulations. We find that women swam against the tide: whilst the trend in female qualifications slightly reduced the gender wage …