Labour market and occupational orientation are core topics of economic education. The separation of men's professions and women's professions - the so-called gender-specific segregation - is one of the most enduring socio-structural characteristics of the labour market. Although an increasing...

We compare the importance of occupational gender segregation for the gender wage gap in East and West Germany in 1995 using a sample of social-security wage records for full-time workers. East Germany, which features a somewhat higher degree of occupational segregation, has a gender wage gap in...

El objetivo de este artículo es estimar la contribución de los distintos tipos de segregación de género en la diferencia salarial en la hostelería. Se emplean datos emparejados trabajador-establecimiento. La base de datos incluye información de 181 hoteles y 121 restaurantes de Andalucía....

Women in Britain who work part-time have, on average, hourly earnings about 25% less than that of women working full-time. This gap has widened greatly over the past 30 years. This paper tries to explain this part-time pay penalty. It shows that a sizeable part of the penalty can be explained by...