Gender in the Labor Market / editors, Solomon W. Polachek, Konstantinos Tatsiramos & Klaus F. Zimmermann.

Electronic book

1: Gender and dynamic agency : theory and evidence on the compensation of top executives 2: Gender differences in risk preferences : an empirical study using attitudinal and behavioral specifications of risk aversion
3: Childcare reform : effects on earnings and employment among native Swedish and immigrant mothers
. 4: Intra-household resource allocation and gender bias in Iran
5: Why has the college gender gap expanded?
6: The gender gap in starting salaries for new college graduates
7: Wage growth and job mobility in the early career : testing a statistical discrimination model of the gender wage gap
8: Selection into occupations and the intergenerational mobility of daughters and sons

Although converging somewhat, men are still economically more successful than women. These stark economic differences prevail in the United States and in virtually all countries throughout the world. This volume contains a number of important new articles analyzing reasons for continuing gender discrepancies in wellbeing. To get at these incongruities, the volume analyzes a number of key questions including: Do men seek greater financial risk than women? Do men really bargain better, and under what circumstances? Why are women rapidly closing the college enrollment gap, but not the wage gap? How do educational choices affect men's and women's starting salaries? What are the chances of women attaining the same occupational status as men? And, how does intergenerational socioeconomic mobility differ between sons and daughters? The answers will not only further our understanding of resource distribution, but will also inform the policy debate on where within society one finds discriminatory practices and where one does not.