Egalité des chances, égalité salariale / Equal opportunities, gender pay gap

. Conférence tripartite égalité professionnelle et égalité salariale, Dossier de presse, Ministère du Travail, des Relations sociales et de la Solidarité, Paris, 23 p., (2007).
Zone géographique / Geographical area : France

. Economic mobility of men and women, Economic Mobility Project, Washington, 16 p., (2007)
Zone géographique / Geographical area : Etats-Unis / United States

. Gender and working conditions in the European Union, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Counditions, Dublin, 78 p., (2007).
Zone géographique / Geographical area : Europe

. The gender gap in workplace authority in Sweden 1968-2000 : A family affair ?, M. Bygren and M. Gähler, IFAU, Stockholm, IFAU working paper, n° 2007-28, 41 p., (2007).

Résumé - Summary : We assess whether the gender gap in authority in Sweden has changed during the period 1968–2000, and investigate to what extent family factors are responsible for this gap. We find that the gap has narrowed modestly during this period, and identify the life-event of parenthood as a major cause of the gap. When men become fathers, they gain authority; when women become mothers, they do not. Our fixed effects panel estimates of the effects of family factors deviate from the cross-sectional estimates, suggesting that unobserved individual heterogeneity – routinely neglected in this line of research – matters.
Zone géographique / Geographical area : Suède / Sweden

. Inequalities within couples : Market incomes and the role of taxes and benefits in Europe, F. Figari and alii, Institute for Social and Economic Research, Colchester, ISER working paper, n° 2007-28, 44 p., (2007).

Résumé - Summary : In spite of there being few elements of tax or cash benefit systems in developed countries that are any longer explicitly gender-biased in a discriminatory sense, it is well recognised that they have significant gender effects. To the extent that women earn less than men on average under tax-benefit systems that are progressive, there is some redistribution from men to women overall. However, an aggregate perspective is insufficient for understanding how earning opportunities and public policies affect living arrangements at the family level in general and the circumstances of men and women in particular. Arguably, it is within the household that a gendered division of labour is most relevant. It is difficult to observe how income and other resources get allocated within households. We can, however, observe the incomes brought into the household and to what extent taxes and benefits mitigate (or indeed exacerbate) any inequality of income between men and women. We explore the effects of tax and benefit systems on differences in income and in incentives to earn income between men and women within couples in a selection of the member countries of the European Union (EU) using EUROMOD, the EU tax-benefit microsimulation model. This comparative perspective allows us to establish the relative effects of different policy regimes, given the underlying characteristics of each national population, using a consistent approach and set of incidence assumptions across countries.
Zone géographique / Geographical area : Europe