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This timely book offers an engaging contemporary analysis of research into the gender pay gap while also providing important nuanced observations. It illustrates the variant methodologies that have been employed by researchers who have attempted to elucidate this challenging topic. Explaining the Gender Wage Gap examines often-neglected factors that highlight women's lower earnings compared to men, such as risk aversion and the negotiation process. Chapters compare feminist and neoclassical discrimination theories whilst analysing models used to calculate the gender wage gap. They conclude that modern discrimination against women in the labour market may be less severe than public assumptions suggest. Due to its investigative content, this intriguing book will be perfect for researchers and students exploring macroeconomics, the labour market and gender discrimination. It will also be beneficial for university professors lecturing in subjects such as economics, sociology and labour policy.

Inequality has been rising in many countries over the last decades and the process seems to have accelerated with the Great Recession. Not only is income distribution more unequal today than 40 years ago, but also its transmission through generations has increased. In other words, many countries no longer experience upward economic mobility as was prevalent in the past. Research in Labor Economics volume 43 contains new and innovative research on the causes and consequences of inequality. Topics include the way inequality is measured, the level of equal opportunities across countries, the impact of education, the effect of changing occupational structure, the consequences of changing productivity within the firm, the roles of stagnating average real wages, the decline of union membership, the effect of maternal labor supply on labor market outcomes of their children, and the link between income inequality and health.

Deuxième d'une série de rapports du BIT axés sur l'évolution des salaires, le présent volume passe en revue les tendances des salaires aux niveaux mondial et régional durant les années de la crise économique et financière de 2008 et 2009. Dans la partie I du rapport, on s'est attaché à mettre en évidence le ralentissement de la croissance des salaires moyens mensuels ainsi que certaines fluctuations à court terme de la part des salaires. Ces changements se sont produits dans un contexte de modération salariale au cours des années qui ont précédé la crise et d'accentuation de l'inégalité salariale sur le long terme depuis le milieu des années 1990.

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