Most existing analyses on the gender wage gap (GWG) have neglected the establishment as a place where inequality … the individual and consider the importance of the workplace to explain gender pay differentials. That is, we first provide … employees), but look at within-firm gender wage differentials. Our results indicate that the mean GWG within firms is smaller …

Most existing analyses on the gender wage gap (GWG) have neglected the establishment as a place where inequality … the individual and consider the importance of the workplace to explain gender pay differentials. That is, we first provide … employees), but look at within-firm gender wage differentials. Our results indicate that the mean GWG within firms is smaller …

Using data across European corporate boards, we investigate the effects of quota-induced female representation on firm … considered firms with different pre-quota shares of women to be good counterfactuals to each other. In our data, we see that such … gender equality is aligned with shareholder interests. This positive effect is not explained by increased risk-taking or …

organizational and group-level behavior theories and empirically investigates how ex-ante board structures and gender-specific board … director appointments are gender specific and suggest that demand-side factors such as explicit and implicit norms drive women …

reports on the gender pay gap. Using an event-study design, we show that the policy had no discernible effects on male and … female wages, thus leaving the gender wage gap unchanged. The effects are precisely estimated and we rule out that the policy … narrowed the gender wage gap by more than 0.4 p.p.. Moreover, we do not find evidence for wage compression within …