International Journal of Manpower: Volume 25 Issue 3/4

Introduction: Earnings inequalities: gender, race and sexual orientation

Danièle Meulders, Robert Plasman, François Rycx

Introduces a collection of papers originally presented at the 79th Applied Econometrics Association Conference which was organised with the specific aim of stimulating discussion…

Gender earnings differentials across individuals over time in British cohort studies

Gerry Makepeace, Peter Dolton, Heather Joshi

This paper analyses gender wage differentials in full‐time employment using recently released data from the National Child Development Study and the British Cohort Study 1970. The…

Gender wage gaps and job mobility in Spain

Antonio Caparrós Ruiz, María Lucía Navarro Gómez, Mario Federico Rueda Narváez

Equal treatment for men and women is an important objective of labour policy in the European Union, largely because there is ample evidence of gender discrimination in the wages…

Rent sharing and the gender wage gap in Belgium

François Rycx, Ilan Tojerow

This study investigates, on the basis of a unique combination of two large‐scale data sets, how rent sharing interacts with the gender wage gap in the Belgian private sector…

Wage differentials between male‐female and native‐foreign workers in pre‐unification Germany

Kostas G. Mavromaras

This paper investigates the relative remuneration of migrants and German nationals in paid employment in pre‐unification Germany. Using microdata it shows that migrants typically…

Direct and indirect gender discrimination in the South African labour market

Carola Grün

Only few studies have examined gender wage differentials and the extent of gender discrimination in South Africa. The following analysis covers several years after the end of…

In the pink: Homosexual‐heterosexual wage differentials in the UK

G. Reza Arabsheibani, Alan Marin, Jonathan Wadsworth

There are few systematic studies of wage discrimination against homosexuals: none for the UK. This paper studies the earnings of homosexual men and women in the UK relative to…

Education, family background and racial earnings inequality in Brazil

Omar Arias, Gustavo Yamada, Luis Tejerina

This study investigates the role of race, family background and education in earnings inequality between whites and the African descendent population in Brazil. It uses quantile…