Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex Discrimination Earlier literature on the gender pay gap has taught us that occupations matter and so do firms. However, the role of the firm has received little scrutiny; occupations have most often been coded in a rather aggregate way, lumping together different jobs; and the use of samples of workers prevents any reliable determination of either ...

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-...

We study the 2011 Austrian pay transparency law, which requires firms above a size threshold to publish internal reports on gender gap. Using an event-study design, we show that policy had no discernible effects male and female wages, thus leaving wage gap unchanged. The are precisely estimated, rule out narrowed by more than 0.4 p.p.. Moreover, do not find evidence for compression within estab...

This article aims to reveal the characteristics of relationship between education and income distribution in Turkey. Additionally, it examines role gender pay gaps this relationship. In study, Heckman two-stage estimation tranche regression methods were applied by using data from Household Labor Force survey 2017 TURKSTAT. According results according method, increases level increase wage women ...

Motivated by the introduction of UK Gender Pay Gap Reporting legislation to large firms, defined as over 250 employees, we use linked employee–employer panel data from Annual Survey Hours and Earnings explore pre-legislation variation in gender pay gap firm size. In doing so, contribute evidence on relationship between two prominent empirical regularities labour economics literature, namely fir...

Being able to decompose the gender pay gap (GPG) and determine contribution of each component is important design appropriate policies reduce it. With aim providing a new tool achieve this, in this paper, we propose decomposition approach based on machine learning model. The was implemented population 5,742 Argentinean IT-related workers obtain value adjusted unadjusted GPG four-phase process: ...