We analyze gender wage inequalities in Italy in the mid-1990s and in the mid-2000s. In this period important labor … gender wage gap by estimating wage distributions in the presence of co-variates 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 …

This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure … show that the gender difference in the probability of getting a job increases along the wage ladder from 9% to 50%. Females …

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 …

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 …

The authors analyze gender differences in fairness perceptions of own wages and subsequent wage growth. The main …-related characteristics are taken into account. Furthermore, the gender difference is more pronounced for married than for single women. This … points to the fact that social norms, gender roles, and gender identity are at least partly responsible for the gap in …

information on employers, to measure the relative bargaining power of men and women and assess the impact of the gender gap in … bargaining strength on the male-female wage gap. We show that a model with additive fixed effects for workers and gender … perform a simple decomposition by assigning the firm-specific wage premiums for one gender to the other. Second, we relate the …

graduates contributes to the gender pay gap, and the reasons underlying their distinct educational choices. The case of Greece … is examined due to the fact that it is an EU country with historically large gender discrepancies in earnings and … firstly estimated by gender. It is found that the subjects in which women are relatively over-represented (e.g. Education …

Recent research suggests that firm-level factors play a significant role in the gender wage gap. This paper adds to …–2017. Estonia is a country with the highest gender wage gap in the EU with about two-thirds of that unexplained by conventional … factors. The results show that firm-level factors are important determinants of the gender wage gap, explaining as much as 35 …

Using detailed employee-employer administrative data, we analyze the impact of the gender pay gap on the performance of … firms and find that it depends on the presence of labor unions. When the firm is not unionized, the gender pay gap reduces … that in these firms, the gender pay gap may reflect the divergent interests of female and male employees and can positively …