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On the Sensitivity of Wage Gap Decompositions

Huber, Martin ; Solovyeva, Anna

In: Journal of Labor Research, 2020, vol. 41, no. 1, p. 1-33

This paper investigates the sensitivity of average wage gap decompositions to methods resting on different assumptions regarding endogeneity of observed characteristics, sample selection into employment, and estimators’ functional form. Applying five distinct decomposition techniques to estimate the gender wage gap in the U.S. using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979,...

Approval of equal rights and gender differences in well-being

Lalive, Rafael ; Stutzer, Alois

In: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, vol. 23, no. 3, p. 933-962

Occupational gender segregation and gender wage gap in Switzerland

Finzi, Ilaria ; Gagliardini, Patrick (Dir.) ; Maggi, Rico (Codir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2007 ; 2007ECO003.

Traditionally, the gender wage gap has been explained by gender differences in the level of human capital (observed gender wage gap) and by discriminatory forces in the labour market (unobserved gender wage gap). One candidate for explaining part of the unobserved gender wage gap is occupational segregation. In this dissertation we study the characteristics of horizontal and vertical occupational...