This paper reviews the empirical literature on the gender wage gap, with particular attention
given to the identification of the key parameters in human capital wage regression models …

By most objective standards, women's jobs are worse than men's, yet women report higher
levels of job satisfaction than do men. This paper uses a recent large-scale British survey to …

Award-winning psychologist Peter Warr explores why some people at work are happier or
unhappier than others. He evaluates different approaches to the definition and assessment …

Little recent empirical work in economics or industrial relations has examined job
satisfaction, despite its demonstrated correlation with labour market behaviour such as quits …

The answer of course is both. In this lucid and subtle investigation, Sylvia Walby, one of the
world's leading authorities on gender shows how undoubted increases in opportunity for …

This paper examines sex differences in job satisfaction by utilizing data from the 1986 UK
Social and Economic Life Initiative (SCELI) household survey. It attempts to ascertain the …

There are inequalities in participation in post-compulsory education and training by socio-
economic status, gender and ethnicity, among other characteristics. These surface …

This volume brings together top scholars in industrial and organizational psychology with
social psychologists to explore the research and theory relating to various areas of …

This paper considers job satisfaction in the academic labour market drawing upon a
particularly detailed data set of 900 academics from five traditional Scottish Universities …

In this paper we re-examine the link between subjective perceptions and objective
measures of wage discrimination by estimating the mean and several quantiles in the …