labor market, according to gender, across four Latin American countries. We find that information and communication … for both men and women. However, there is a significant gender gap that favors men on the STEM returns. There is also a … sizable gender gap regarding the amount of skills accumulated by gender. Through an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, we estimate …

gender pay gap. However, there are also large differences in earnings between men and women within occupations. These … profession-specific gender pay gaps are smaller in professions with a high proportion of employees in the public sector. This … finding indicates that more transparency with respect to earnings could reduce the gender pay gap in the private economy. …

This paper analyzes the gender wage gap across the wage distribution using 2010 data from the German statistical agency … men and women in distributions conditional and unconditional on covariates. The results indicate increasing gender wage …

Wage decompositions suggest that a large share of the gender wage gap can be explained by differences in occupation and … alleviate the gender gap. We test this hypothesis by examining the impact of the 2011 Pay Transparency Law in Austria, which … Austrian job board with social security spells that record the gender of new hires. To compare the pay level of vacancies …

hiring wage gap has narrowed over the past two decades, it still accounts for over half of the overall gender pay gap in … findings suggest that gender pay gap reporting laws that focus exclusively on the overall gaps within employers miss an …

economic growth. Substantial gender wage gaps contribute significantly to overall wage inequality. We look at an often …-overlooked driver of gender inequality: international trade. Trading firms constitute 70 per cent of employment in South African … universe of formal South African manufacturing firms, we show that these firms exhibit greater gender wage gaps than non …

This paper examines the gender gap in education and investigates the related implications on the labour market and … returns to education in Sudan. Our results confirm two stylized facts: first, the incidence of significant gender gap in … education in Sudan and second, the incidence of gender inequalities and gap in skill level, share of women in economic …

gender wage gaps among Regular Wage/Salaried (RWS) workers in India, both at the mean, as well as along the entire wage … distribution to see "what happens where". The gender log wage gap at the mean is 55 percent in 1999-2000 and 49 percent in 2009 … that, in both years, the bulk of the gender wage gap is unexplained, i.e. possibly discriminatory. They also reveal that …

The aim of this paper is to examine the issues of gender disparities in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS … gender disparities in comparison to: EU-12 and EU-15, using data for the period 1985-2005. The study confirms the existence … of slightly different paths in which gender disparities have evolved over time. While in EU-15 women participation in …

-term perspective of decentralized institutional change in which gender-biased inheritance systems emerged as a defensive measure to …