Gender Roles and the Gender Expectations Gap

Motivation, Expectations and the Gender Pay Gap for UK Graduates

Motivation, Expectations and the Gender Pay Gap for UK Graduates Focussing on recent UK graduates, a wage gap of 12% is found. The unexplained component of the gap is small and a large fraction of the gap can be explained by subject choice, job characteristics, motivation and expectation variables. Motivation and expectations account for 44% of the explained gap, thus most studies over-estimate...

Gender Roles and Expectations in Clinical Practice and Research

The gender gap reloaded

This study examines the wage gender gap of young adults in the 1970s, 1980s, and 2000 in the US. Using quantile regression we estimate the gender gap across the entire wage distribution. We also study the importance of high school characteristics in predicting future labor market performance. We conduct analyses for three major racial/ethnic groups in the US: Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics, empl...

Closing the Gender Gap

The Gender Pay Gap