-groups according to age and education. The public sector wage penalty for males has decreased recently over time and is larger for the …

inverse U-shaped gender wage gap (GWG) over their life-course: an initial gap in early adulthood widened substantially during … childrearing years, affecting earnings in full-time and part-time jobs. In our descriptive approach, education related differences … are minor. Gender differences in work experience are the biggest contributor to that part of the gender wage gap we can …

I examine the incidence and determinants of the gender income gap in Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Serbia, Tajikistan … substantively large gender income gap (favoring males) in all six countries; (2) some evidence of a gender-related glass ceiling in … decreasing the gender income gap in these former formally gender neutral economies-notably through attention towards the …

The gender gap in inter-firm mobility is an important contributor to the gender pay gap but is as yet unexplained. In a … structural model of workplace choice, I show that the gender mobility gap can be understood as a consequence of women's typical … weaker the less an individual contributes to household earnings. Furthermore, gender differences are small once differences …

Germany has a large persistent Gender Pay Gap of 21%; although this gap is not constant across occupations. The … question arises why some occupations have large Gender Pay Gaps while others have only small gaps. Using data from the … uncover the relationship between occupational characteristics and the Gender Pay Gap. To do so, I apply a two-step approach …

While education and labor force participation of women have been increased, there is still a substantial gender gap in … and gender equality. We address this question by examining the influence of works councils on the gender policies of …

formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … different gender identity prescriptions of family breadwinning. We use data for three periods between 1984 and 2016 from the … since reunification, converging to the more gender-egalitarian East Germany. Our work emphasizes the view that political and …

formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … different gender identity prescriptions of family breadwinning. We use data for three periods between 1984 and 2016 from the … since reunification, converging to the more gender-egalitarian East Germany. Our work emphasizes the view that political and …

This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service … and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to … legislature seats. This gender gap in advancing to Congress among state legislators is not generated by gender differences in …