This chapter surveys the literature on the gender wage gap in developed countries. The
overarching goals are to provide an overview of the gender wage gap, to examine the extent …

Progress towards equal pay is elusive. This article reviews debates on and prescribed
remedies for gender pay equality over the past 40 years of equal pay policy. It looks at pay …

Abstract Using Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) microdata over the 1980–2010
period, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender wage …

There is growing evidence that firm-specific pay premiums are an important source of wage
inequality. These premiums will contribute to the gender wage gap if women are less likely …

The converging roles of men and women are among the grandest advances in society and
the economy in the last century. These aspects of the grand gender convergence are …

We discuss the contribution of the experimental literature to the understanding of both
traditional and previously unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their …

Psychological and socio-psychological factors are now more commonly discussed as
possible explanations for gender differences in labor market outcomes. We first describe the …

Offices are social places. Employees and managers take breaks together and talk about
family and hobbies. In this study, we show that employees' social interactions with their …

In this article, we develop and empirically test the theoretical argument that when an
organizational culture promotes meritocracy (compared with when it does not), managers in …

The careers of MBAs from a top US business school are studied to understand how career
dynamics differ by gender. Although male and female MBAs have nearly identical earnings …