Pay Transparency and the Gender Gap

The Gender Pay Gap

Attitudes towards Economic Risk and the Gender Pay Gap.

Attitudes towards Economic Risk and the Gender Pay Gap This paper examines the links between gender differences in attitudes towards economic risk and the gender pay gap. Consistent with the literature on the socio-economic determinants of attitudes towards economic risk, it shows that females are much more risk averse than males. It then extends this research to show that workers with more fav...

Performance-Support Bias and the Gender Pay Gap among Stockbrokers

Organizational mechanisms, and their contexts, leading to gender inequality among stockbrokers in two large brokerages are analyzed. Inequality is the result of gender differences in sales, as both firms use performancebased pay, paying entirely by commissions. This paper develops and tests whether performance-support bias, whereby women receive inferior sales support and sales assignments, cau...

Firm-Level Monopsony and the Gender Pay Gap

Firm-Level Monopsony and the Gender Pay Gap Using a dynamic labor supply model and linked employer-employee data, I find evidence of substantial search frictions, with females facing a higher level of frictions than males. However, the majority of the gender gap in labor supply elasticities is driven by across firm sorting rather than within firm differences, a feature predicted in the search t...

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-...