gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a …-employment raises the gap by 5 percentage points. We then investigate the role of sharing norms and gender-differentiated allocation of … time within the household in the gender performance gap, by estimating their effect on the technical inefficiency of female …

larger gender wage gaps at the upper tail of the wage distribution. Using a matched worker-firm data set of about 1 30 000 … information specific to the firms. Our different results show that accounting for firm-related characteristics reduces the gender …. Furthermore, a quantile decomposition shows that the gender wage gap is mainly due to differences in the returns to observed …