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 …

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 …

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 … and with education. Across quantiles the effect of being a female on hourly wages is negative, however this gap is higher … 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 …

, public interest in and press coverage of salary differences on the basis of gender—or any other ascriptive class—in the … learned professions are wanting. Moreover, few studies have spoken directly on the gender pay disparities in the legal academy … nationally representative survey to date of tenured law professors in the United States, to track how gender and race are tied to …

role played by the family for individual wages. We present a simple model of dual-earner households facing a trade … considerably larger shares of the gender wage gap than does the standard decomposition …

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 …

We estimate gender differences in internal promotion experiences for a representative sample of Canadian workers using … received fewer promotions than similar men, but these differences stem almost entirely from gender differences in industry and …

plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender pay gap. Controlling for match fixed effects we … to have enough discretion to adjust wages in the short run. We also document a larger competition effect in plants with …