Despite an influx of new gender pay gap data – ranging from negative gaps, to gaps exceeding 60% – the government’s new … only area in which the data has been reported in a usable way is the second-to-last measurement: proportion of males and …

We develop a two sector competitive equilibrium model that rationalizes the gender pay gap by the coexistence of two … on their physical endowments. We prove the existence of a competitive equilibrium where the gender pay gap arises. The … an ineffective way to reduce the gender pay gap …

directly applicable to the measurement of discrimination. As an illustrative example we measure female wage discrimination in …

We present a theoretical explanation of the gender wage gap which turns on the interaction between men and women in … industry of workers and does so in a competitive labor market where there exist no inherent gender differences. We test our … theory using CPS data over the period 1979-98 and find it is strongly supported by the data …

We present a theoretical explanation of the gender wage gap which turns on the interaction between men and women in … industry of workers and does so in a competitive labor market where there exist no inherent gender differences. We test our … theory using CPS data over the period 1979-98 and find it is strongly supported by the data …

and child-rearing - a critical omission when analyzing gender differences in earnings. This paper constructs a better … can be generated using commonly available data on labor force participation rates by age and gender to gauge the … underestimate the contribution of gender differences in work experience in explaining the gender wage gap. …

Studies have shown a decreasing trend in the U.S. gender earnings gap since the 1980s. The authors work with a … decompose that gap into observable and unobservable components in order to determine which contributing factors are gender …-specific and which can be attributed to the wage structure. They extend the Blau and Kahn framework to consider measurement error …

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 …