The gender wage gap has declined over time. However, most of the remaining gap is unexplained, partly because of gender convergence in wage銉緀termining characteristics. In this paper, we show the degree of convergence differs substantially across Europe. In some countries, predominantly in Eastern...
What factors determine the gender labor gap? Does labor precariousness determine the gender wage gap? We analyze the conditions in which increases in income inequality are accompanied by increased labor precariousness in the 32 Mexican metropolitan areas. We also asses which sectors had the greatest i...
避孕药在那些年变得更容易获得,消除了戈尔丁博士所称的早婚的“强有力”的原因,也让妇女有更多的时间在家庭之外建立自己的身份。 She also illustrated that the process of closing the gender wage gap has been uneven over the course of history.Recently, progress in closing it has been halting:Today, Wo...
Bargaining, Sorting, and the Gender Wage Gap: Quantifying the Impact of Firms on the Relative Pay of Women∗ 作者的话: 迟到的更新来啦!这次的文章还是夏校之后自己读的第一篇文章。写着写着,就想念哈佛的小伙伴啦! 上个星期招聘榜更新之后,由很多小伙伴们响应了我的文章,而我也为我们的专栏新招了几...
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — We hear it over and over again: the myth of the gender wage “gap.” Here’s President Obama, speaking on June 4: “And we’ve made progress. But we’ve got a lot more to do. Women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar a man earns.” An Obama...
our study delves into gender wage gaps within the gig economy in China, considering the impact of the evolving digital economy. We also conduct comparisons between these gaps in both the gig and traditional economic sectors to better elucidate factors shaping the gender wage gap. Specifically, this...
The aim of my dissertation is to study the gender wage gap with a specific focus on developing andtransition countries. In the first chapter I present the main existing theories proposed to analyse thegender wage gap and I review the empirical literature on the gender wage gap in developing an...
(2010): "The gender wage gap across the wage distribution in the private and public sectors in Sweden," Applied Economics Letters, (17), 14651468.R. Wahlberg. The Gender Wage Gap across the Wage Distribution in the Private and Public Sectors in Sweden. Applied Economics, -:-, Forthcoming....
This study updates Gregory's work by comparing the gender wage gap across four countries, Australia, France, Japan and Britain. Our results concord with those of Gregory: institutions are still important in explaining the relative size of the gender wage gap....
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 differs across countries in Europe. Most, if not all, of...