Understanding International Differences in the Gender Pay Gap

By Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn. Journal of Labor Economics, 2001

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Does a Manager's Gender Matter When Accessing Credit? Evidence from European Data (2017, background): “promote women’s political representation (Blau and Kahn, 2001; Bush, 2011).”
Female-Led Firms and Gender Wage Policies (2010, background): “Studies have explained these trends to a certain degree, in the context of labor market institutions and general inequality (Blau and Kahn 2003), as well as of competition and equal treatment laws (Weichselbaumer and Winter-Ebmer 2007).”
Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? A Cross‐Country Analysis of Gender Gaps (2006, neutral): “Selection on observed characteristics is instead exploited in the matching approach, which consists in imputing wages for the nonemployed by assigning them the observed wages of the employed with matching characteristics (see Blau and Beller 1992; and Juhn 1992, 2003).”
Women in the Labour Force: How Well is Europe Doing ? (2005, background): “In a more recent paper Blau and Kahn (2003) test their hypothesis for a larger set of 22 countries, from the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) for the years 1984-1994.”
The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations (2017, background): “…explained all of the difference between the US (with a relatively high) gender pay gap and that in nine other industrialized countries; and Blau and Kahn (2003) found that differences in wage compression were an important factor explaining differences in the gender pay gap across…”
The Economic Situation of First and Second-Generation Immigrants in France, Germany and the United Kingdom (2010, background): “2 For the United Kingdom, see, for example, Chiswick (1980), Stewart (1983), Bell (1997), Modood et al.”
Teacher turnover and non-pecuniary factors (2003, background): “According to Blau and Kahn (2003), the gap in log earnings between men and women in the 1985–1994-period was 0.275 and 0.395 log points in Norway and USA, respectively, while the average gap across the 22 countries in their study was 0.309.”
Work–Family Policy Trade-Offs for Mothers? Unpacking the Cross-National Variation in Motherhood Earnings Penalties (2016, background): “It may be that countries with larger motherhood penalties simply have greater overall income disparities, similar to the impact of income inequality on gender gaps in earnings (Blau & Kahn, 1992, 1996, 2003; Mandel & Semyonov, 2005).”
From Local to Global: External Validity in a Fertility Natural Experiment (2015, neutral): “For context variables, obvious candidates are female labor force participation as a broad measure of employment opportunities for women in a given country (Blau and Kahn 2003) and the total fertility rate.”