The Gender Pay Gap Revisited with Big Data: Do Methodological Choices Matter?

The Gender Pay Gap

Understanding the Gender Pay Gap: What’s Competition Got to Do with It?

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 ...

Does It Matter Who Responded to the Survey? Trends in the U.S. Gender Earnings Gap Revisited

Does It Matter Who Responded to the Survey? Trends in the U.S. Gender Earnings Gap Revisited Blau and Kahn (JOLE, 1997; ILRR, 2006) decomposed trends in the U.S. gender earnings gap into observable and unobservable components using the PSID. They found that the unobservable part contributed significantly not only to the rapidly shrinking earnings gap in the 1980s, but also to the slowing-down o...

Do Big Classes Really Matter?

One of the more fashionable claims in contemporary sociology is that individuals’ life chances, attitudes, and behaviors have become decoupled from their class locations. The few empirical analyses relevant to this claim inevitably begin with nominal conceptions of class that aggregate occupations into “big classes” or reduce them to scores on vertical scales of prestige, socioeconomic standing...

Is There a Gap in the Gap? Regional Differences in the Gender Pay Gap

In this paper, we investigate regional differences in the gender pay gap both theoretically and empirically. Within a spatial oligopsony model, we show that more densely populated labour markets are more competitive and constrain employers’ ability to discriminate against women. Utilising a large administrative data set for western Germany and a flexible semi-parametric propensity score matchin...