Gender Pay Differentials

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction and Overview

   1. Introduction and Overview

      • Benoît Mahy, Robert Plasman, François Rycx

      Pages 1-9

3. Job Access and Workplace Practices

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Assessing Gender Discrimination amongst Young People on their Arrival into the Labour Market: Analysis of Young Populations of French and Foreign Origins

      • Olivier Joseph, Séverine Lemière

      Pages 13-33

   3. High-Performance Work Practices, Incentive Pay Schemes,Worker Evaluation Systems and Male—Female Wages

      • Nabanita Datta Gupta, Tor Eriksson

      Pages 34-58

4. Promotions and Wage Growth

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59

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   2. Return to Internal Mobility in the Spanish Labour Market: Differences by Gender

      • Dolores García-Crespo

      Pages 61-75

   3. Gender Differences in Wage Growth and Promotion in Luxembourg

      • Philippe Van Kerm

      Pages 76-95

5. Sectors, Profits and Rent-Sharing

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97

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   2. The Gender Pay Gap in Belgium: How Much do Sectors Matter?

      • François Rycx, Ilan Tojerow

      Pages 99-117

   3. Gender Wage Inequality and Rent-Sharing: Evidence from a German-Linked Employer—Employee Data-set

      • Hermann Gartner

      Pages 118-131

6. Dynamics and Unobserved Heterogeneity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133

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   2. Does Unobserved Heterogeneity Matter? A Panel-Data Analysis of the Gender Pay Gap

      • Amynah Gangji, Kristian Orsini, Salimata Sissoko

      Pages 135-164

   3. The Gender Wage Ratio in New Zealand, 1997–2003

      • W. Robert, J. Alexander, Murat Genç, Mohammad Jaforullah

      Pages 165-187

7. Back Matter

   Pages 189-206

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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.

• gender
• labor market
• mobility
• panel data
• women

• University of Mons-Hainaut (UMH), Belgium

  Benoît Mahy

• Free University of Brussels (ULB), Belgium

  Robert Plasman, François Rycx

W. ROBERT J. ALEXANDER Department of Economics, University of Otago, New Zealand TOR ERIKSSON Professor, Aarhus School of Business, Denmark AMYNAH GANGJI Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium DOLORES GARCIA CRESPO University of Malaga, Spain HERMANN GARTNER Institute for Employment Research, Germany MURAT GENÇ 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 Céreq DEVA, France SÉVERINE LEMIÈRE 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

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