Women in developed economies have made major advancements in labor markets
throughout the past century, but remaining gender differences in pay and employment seem …

Since the early 1970s, a number of authors have calculated gender wage differentials
between women and men of equal productivity. This meta‐study provides a new quantitative …

Purpose This paper aims to examine gender gaps in work-related outcomes in the context of
Covid-19. The authors hypothesized that the Covid-19 pandemic would create a gender gap …

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 …

This article advances a couple-level framework to examine how parenthood shapes within-
family gender inequality by education in three countries that vary in their normative and …

In 1990, the US had the sixth highest female labor participation rate among 22 OECD
countries. By 2010 its rank had fallen to seventeenth. We find that the expansion of “family …

This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of decomposition methods that have been
developed since the seminal work of Oaxaca and Blinder in the early 1970s. These methods …

Our future depends very much on how we respond to three great challenges of the new
century, all of which threaten to increase social inequality: first, how we adapt institutions to …

This article explores tradeoffs reflecting interaction effects between socioeconomic class and
different types of family policies on gender inequalities in terms of agency and economic …