Earnings inequality and the minimum wage: Evidence from Brazil

N Engbom, C Moser - American Economic Review, 2022 - aeaweb.org
Increases in the minimum wage can substantially reduce earnings inequality. To
demonstrate this, we combine administrative and survey data with an equilibrium model of …

Sexual harassment and gender inequality in the labor market

O Folke, J Rickne - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We describe how sexual harassment contributes to sex segregation and pay inequality in
the labor market. Combining nationally representative survey data and administrative data …

Gender differences in job search and the earnings gap: Evidence from the field and lab

P Cortés, J Pan, L Pilossoph… - The Quarterly Journal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
This article investigates gender differences in the job search process in the field and lab. Our
analysis is based on rich information on initial job offers and acceptances from …

[PDF][PDF] Show Me the Amenity: Are Higher-Paying Firms Better All Around?

J Sockin - 2022 - aeaweb.org
Do firms that pay more offer better amenities, or does the greater pay compensate for worse
amenities? Using matched US employee-employer data, this paper estimates the joint …

Gender differences in job search and the earnings gap: Evidence from business majors

P Cortés, J Pan, L Pilossoph, B Zafar - 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
To understand gender differences in the job search process, we collect rich information on
job offers and acceptances from past and current undergraduates of Boston University's …

The gender gap in meaningful work

VC Burbano, O Folke, S Meier… - Management …, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
An understanding of differences in nonmonetary work conditions is fundamental for a
complete characterization of individuals' well-being at work. Thus, to fully characterize …

Does pay transparency affect the gender wage gap? Evidence from Austria

A Gulyas, S Seitz, S Sinha - American Economic Journal: Economic …, 2023 - aeaweb.org
We study the 2011 Austrian pay transparency law, which requires firms above a size
threshold to publish internal reports on the gender pay gap. Using an event-study design …

[PDF][PDF] Home production, women's market work, and structural transformation

T Dinkelman, LR Ngai - STEG Pathfinding Paper, 2021 - steg.cepr.org
This paper reviews the literature on how linkages between women's home and market work
change through the structural transformation. We relate historical shifts in female time …

What firms do: Gender inequality in linked employer-employee data

A Casarico, S Lattanzio - Journal of Labor Economics, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
We study the extent to which employer heterogeneity affects gender gaps in earnings across
the distribution, over time, and over the life cycle, accounting for cohort effects. Using a …

Earnings inequality and dynamics in the presence of informality: The case of Brazil

N Engbom, G Gonzaga, C Moser… - Quantitative …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Using rich administrative and household survey data spanning 34 years from 1985 to 2018,
we document a series of new facts on earnings inequality and dynamics in a developing …