Trends in China’s gender employment and pay gap: Estimating gender pay gaps with employment selection

The Gender Pay Gap

Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? A Cross-Country Analysis of Gender Gaps

Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women into work explains an important part of such correlation and thus of the observed variation in wage gaps. The idea is that, if women who are employed tend to have relatively high-wage characteristics, low female employment rates may become consistent with low gender wage gaps ...

Equal Opportunity? Gender Gaps in CEO Appointments and Executive Pay

This paper uses exceptionally rich data on Swedish corporate executives and their personal characteristics to study gender gaps in CEO appointments and pay. Both gaps are sizeable: 18% for CEO appointments and 27% for pay. At most one-eight of the gaps can be attributed to observable gender differences in executives’ and their firms’ characteristics. Further tests suggest that unobservable gend...

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...