the average female avoids competitive behaviour more than the average male. This suggests that observed gender differences … might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …

In this paper, we use quantile regression decomposition methods to analyze the gender gap between men and women who … selection is a serious issue. In addition to shedding light on the sources of the gender gap in the Netherlands, we make two … unobservables. Our decompositions show that the majority of the gender log wage gap is due to differences between men and women in …

increased over the next decade. Among Jews and among non-Jews, there were only small gender differences in the proportions in … the high level occupations. Thus, religion was more important than gender in explaining occupational patterns. American …

National Insurance Institute. The paper focuses on gender differences in work history patterns and, within each gender …’s labor market attachment is stronger than is generally presumed. Gender differences in employment interruptions are greater …

We use monthly personnel records of a large German company to analyse the gender wage gap (GWG). Main findings are: (1 … significant impact on the GWG; (8) the gender gap in absenteeism is between 26 and 46 percent. Overall, the results are consistent … with statistical discrimination explanations of the gender wage gap, though we cannot rule out other forms of …

period in which educational policies intent on equating gender opportunities in education were implemented. To this end we …