This paper analyzes the effect of job satisfaction on labor turnover by gender usingdata from the first two waves of the Swiss Household Panel (1999 and 2000). The resultsreveal that job satisfaction is a very good predictor of future quits, yet the effect differsbetween men and women: all other...

This paper analyzes trends in the gender wage gap and occupational segregation inSwitzerland in the years 1991 to 2001 with data from the first 11 waves of the Swiss LaborForce Survey. The results reveal that the gender wage gap is converging at a very slow rateand that if this rate remains...

In this paper, the relationship between labor-market segmentation and the genderwage gap is analyzed with data from the 1998 Swiss Wage Structure Survey. It is shown thatin three selected industries (health-care industry, catering industry, banking and insuranceindustry) the unexplained and...

Obwohl in der Schweizerischen Bundesverfassung der Grundsatz verankert ist, dassFrauen und Männer den gleichen Lohn für gleichwertige Arbeit erhalten sollen,belegen zahlreiche empirische Studien, dass Frauen in der Schweiz immer nochbedeutend weniger verdienen als Männer. Auch wenn man die...