We use data from six cohorts of university graduates in Germany to assess the extent of gender gaps in college and … very similar number of hours per week, but men earn more than women across the pay distribution, with an unadjusted gender …

In this paper, we explore the recent gender wage gap trends in a sample of European countries with a new approach that … gender wage gap declined in the majority of the European countries. Similar to the U.S. experience, a part of this decline is …, the changes in returns to brain and brawn skills had a widening effect on the gender wage gap in Southern European …

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 …

We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working … - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to three percentage-points lower for hourly wages in female … in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is …

association, we find that female wages are negatively associated with working directly for a female as opposed to male manager …

and for the field of study, as women lag in highly remunerative majors. The raw gender gap in hourly wages is 5 …The paper investigates the gender wage gap among recently graduated people, controlling for job and academic variables … gender norms. Results indicate that childcare and part-time availability are correlated with lower gender wage gaps, while …

The gender wage gap has declined in magnitude over time; however, the gap that remains is largely unexplained due to … gender convergence in key wage determining characteristics. In this paper we show that the degree of gender convergence … can still explain a relatively large proportion of the wage gap. We investigate whether gender differences relating to job …

This paper studies the role of human capital in gender wage disparities. Despite increasing convergence of male and … certain gender as additional drivers of the pay differential. Relying on PIAAC (the Program for the International Assessment …

of employers and employees. Yet there is very little evidence that the 'gender pay gap' is the result of unfair …

This article comments on an article by Steven Horwitz, who argued that most of the gender pay gap can be explained by … to discriminate on the basis of gender in some cases, and provides an example …