Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay … gap remains. This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the gender wage gap, with an emphasis on … developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends in the gender differences in wages and employment rates. We then …

Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay … gap remains. This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the gender wage gap, with an emphasis on … developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends in the gender differences in wages and employment rates. We then …

Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay … gap remains. This chapter provides a review of the economics literature on the gender wage gap, with an emphasis on … developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends in the gender differences in wages and employment rates. We then …

This paper analyzes the effect of selection on ability on the evolution of the gender wage gap during the first years ….6 percentage point higher than their high‐ability female counter-parts. This contributed to the increase in the conditional gender … conditional gender wage gap between ages 21 and 36 …

widens as women climb up the corporate ladder. Also, on evaluation of different industries, a variation in the gender pay gap …Gender discrimination in the labour market has been a subject of various social and political debates all around the … that a significant pay disparity exists between the female and male employees. Further more, the trends show that the gap …

This paper empirically investigates the gender wage gap in Bangladesh during the period 2005–2009. Applying … wage gap. The paper also demonstrates that the observed gender wage gap is likely to be underestimated if we ignore …

This paper examines the gender wage gaps along the wage distribution in Egypt using individual data from the labor … policies to improve women's productivity but policies that promote gender equity in hiring, and in the workplace. Moreover …

of women in the Egyptian private labor market has evolved, and if occupational segregation has affected gender wage gaps … in the newly transformed Egyptian economy. The paper tracks the current trend of gender based wage gaps, and evaluates … segregation and increased crowding of women in few jobs, which are becoming a more serious issue in pay differences than pure pay …

learned professions are wanting. Moreover, few studies have spoken directly on the gender pay disparities in the legal academy …Differences in pay between women and men in the same jobs have captured the public's attention in recent years. However …, public interest in and press coverage of salary differences on the basis of gender—or any other ascriptive class—in the …

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 …