Gender Pay Differentials: Cross-National Evidence from Micro-Data (Applied Econometrics Association Series)

This book provides new evidence on the magnitude and sources of pay inequalities between women and men in European countries and New Zealand on the basis of micro data. Particular attention is devoted to job access and workplace practices, promotions and wage growth, sectoral affiliation and rent-sharing, and unobserved heterogeneity and dynamics. W. ROBERT J. ALEXANDER Department of Economics, University of Otago, New Zealand TOR ERIKSSON Professor, Aarhus School of Business, Denmark AMYNAH GANGJI Universit Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium DOLORES GARCIA CRESPO University of Malaga, Spain HERMANN GARTNER Institute for Employment Research, Germany MURAT GEN Department of Economics, University of Otago, New Zealand NABANITA DATTA GUPTA Associate Professor (On Leave), Aarhus School of Business and Research Professor, Danish National Institute of Social Research, Denmark MOHAMMAD JAFORULLAH Department of Economics, University of Otago, New Zealand OLIVIER JOSEPH Creq DEVA, France SVERINE LEMIRE Associate Researcher, DULBEA, Free University of Brussels, Belgium KRISTIAN ORSINI Faculty of Economics and Applied Economics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium SALIMATA SISSOKO Research Fellow, Department of Applied Economics (DULBEA), Belgium ILAN TOJEROW Research Fellow and Teaching Assistant, Department of Applied Economics (DULBEA), Free University of Brussels, Belgium PHILIPPE VAN KERM Centre for Population, Poverty and Public Policy Studies/International Networks for Studies in Technology, Environment, Alternatives, Development (CEPS/INSTEAD), Luxembourg