same time, regional differences in labour market performance have grown. Raising the low employment rate of women with …

Women consistently work less in the labor market and earn lower wages than men. While economic empowerment of women is … an important objective in itself, women's economic activity also matters as a condition for sustained economic growth …

The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond … large and comparable data sets or to conventional approaches that limit the possibilities to compare men and women. …

negotiation intentions that persist to actual negotiation behavior, particularly for men. While the treatment affects women … treatment effects on behavior for women. Overall, our findings suggest that such information interventions can help to nudge … women who have potentially large financial returns to negotiation to realize these gains …

impact of short parental leave on mothers' employment status and subsequent wages, with a special focus on the part … wages of first mothers at the global level. However, for part-time paid leave takers, the reform increases the employment … rate but decreases the subsequent wages. The wages remain lower two years after child birth, especially for the most …

We explore the impact of mentoring of females and gender segregation on wages using a large longitudinal data set for … Portugal. Female managers can protect and mentor female employees by paying them higher wages than male-led firms would do. We … find that females can enjoy higher wages in female-led firms, the opposite being true for males. In both cases is a higher …

During the 1980s, the wage gap between white women and white men in the US declined by approximately 1 percentage point … white women and white men would have been achieved as early as 2017 …