The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations
The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations is a scholarly work by Lawrence M. Kahn and Francine D. Blau, published in 2017 in ''Journal of Economic Literature''. The main subjects of the publication include occupational segregation, microdata, wage, social mobility, demographic economics, retirement, Panel Study of Income Dynamics, labour economics, salience, gender gap, distribution, human capital, and economics. The authors then survey the literature to identify what has been learned about the explanations for the gap.