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Orazio Attanasio, Peter Levell, Hamish Low, Virginia Sánchez Marcos In spite of the substantial decline in gender differences in labour market outcomes observed over the last few decades in developed countries, substantial gender gaps remain. As discussed in Blau and Kahn (2017), gender gaps in terms of conventional human capital variables are now small, particularly among highly educated individuals. However, a gender pay gap persists, and is more pronounced at the top of the wage distributio...