A number of papers have recently argued that men and women have different attitudes and behavioural responses to competition. Laboratory experiments suggest that these gender differences are very large but it is important to be able to map these findings into real world differences. In this paper, we use performance pay as an indicator of competition in the workplace and compare the gender gap ...

Using harmonised data from the European Union Household Panel, we analyse gender pay gaps by sector across the wages distribution for ten countries. We find that the mean gender pay gap in the raw data typically hides large variations in the gap across the wages distribution. We use quantile regression (QR) techniques to control for the effects of individual and job characteristics at different...

This paper uses mean and quantile regression analysis to investigate the gender pay gap for the wage employed in Vietnam over the period 1993 to 2002. It finds that the Doi moi reforms appear to have been associated with a sharp reduction in gender pay gap disparities for the wage employed. The average gender pay gap in this sector halved between 1993 and 2002 with most of the contraction evide...

This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender pay gap has not exhibited, in general, an upward tendency over the transitional period to which available data relate. Most of the gender pay gap is ascribed to the ‘unexplained’ component using con...

Emma Duchini and Clémentine Van Effenterre is an assistant professor of economics at the University Essex (e.duchini{at}essex.ac.uk). Toronto (c.vaneffenterre{at}utoronto.ca).

In this study we quantify the size and drivers of contemporary gender pay gap among medical doctors employed in UK public sector. using nationally representative data from Annual Survey Hours Earnings, make comparisons to private sector, as well other sector professionals. We find that substantial 20 per cent hourly is far larger than either these comparator occupations. Decomposing mean for do...