We investigate whether the Big Five Personality Dimensions contribute to explaining gender and migrant wage gaps by … using a linked employer-employee dataset. We expand the scarce literature concerning personality traits and gender wage gaps … associations between the Big Five and wages. The magnitude of this relationship varies across the gender and the migratory status …

Analyzing gender gaps of unemployed job-seekers, this study uniquely complements the broad literature focussing … predominantly on gender gaps of employed workers. I consider a broad range of labor market outcomes, and disentangle the factors … importance. Married women and those with young children perform particularly bad compared to men. High unexplainable gender gaps …

This paper estimates size and impact factors of the gender pay gap in Europe. It adds to the literature in three … aspects. First, we update existing figures on the gender pay gaps in the EU based on the Structure of Earnings Survey 2010 … the most important barrier to gender pay equality in European countries. In addition, the fact that part-time positions …

This paper provides first-time evidence on the magnitude and determinants of regional differences in the gender pay gap …

literature. We examine gender differences in labor market integration among refugees and other new immigrants who came to Germany …) in Germany, we compare the dynamics and sources of employment gender gap among refugees and other immigrants. The results … uncover narrow initial gender differences among refugees that grow over time and a reversed pattern among other immigrants …

industries. This creates a countercyclical gender income gap as women become breadwinners in recessions, producing an insurance … human capital choice. We show that the change in gender employment cyclicality can explain 38 to 44 percent of the emergence …

This paper opens up the black box of gender-specific application and hiring behavior and its implications for the … residual gender earnings gap. To understand the underlying mechanisms, we propose a two-stage matching model with testable …

-neutral technology on hours worked, productivity and wages in a novel structural vector error correction framework identified by non …-recursive long-runrestrictions.Results show that skill-biased technology shocks reduce hours worked but increase inequality …