Gender Pay Gap: A Macro Perspective

The Gender Pay Gap

The Gender Pay Gap Across Countries: A Human Capital Approach

The gender wage gap varies across countries. For example, among OECD nations women in Australia, Belgium, Italy and Sweden earn 80% as much as males, whereas in Austria, Canada and Japan women earn about 60%. Current studies examining cross-country differences focus on the impact of labor market institutions such as minimum wage laws and nationwide collective bargaining. However, these studies ...

Firms and the Gender Pay Gap: A Cross-National Comparison

This paper examines the sources of the sex wage gap in a set of EU countries with the European Structure of Earnings Survey (ESES), a unique cross-national survey of matched employeremployee data. The paper moves beyond traditional analysis of sex wage gap by incorporating the workplace effect in the wage outcomes of men and women and by developing inter-country comparisons via the Juhn-Murphy-...

The Gender Pay Gap: A Cross-Country Analysis

The gender wage gap varies across countries. For example, among OECD nations women in Australia, Belgium, Italy and Sweden earn 80% as much as males, whereas in Austria, Canada and Japan women earn about 60% as much as males. Current studies examining cross-country differences focus on the impact of labor market institutions such as minimum wage laws and nationwide collective bargaining. Howeve...

Is There a Gap in the Gap? Regional Differences in the Gender Pay Gap

In this paper, we investigate regional differences in the gender pay gap both theoretically and empirically. Within a spatial oligopsony model, we show that more densely populated labour markets are more competitive and constrain employers’ ability to discriminate against women. Utilising a large administrative data set for western Germany and a flexible semi-parametric propensity score matchin...