20 estimators common in the panel data literature using the data on migration to Germany from 18 source countries in the …

Indian girls have significantly lower school enrollment rates than boys. Anecdotal evidence suggests that gender … gender differences for older children. I argue that these results need to be interpreted carefully since they are a … combination of two underlying effects, but propose that one explanation are age-specific forms of gender discrimination. …

We investigate the importance of employer preferences in explaining Sticky Floors, the pattern that women are, compared … labour market and test whether hiring discrimination based on gender is heterogeneous by the promotion characteristics of the … selected jobs. We find that women get 33% less interview invitations when they apply for jobs implying a first promotion in …

Using data from the U.S. National Incident Based Reporting System we document a gender gap in the number of crimes … committed in the property crime market: only 30% of the crimes are committed by women. Starting from the classical Becker …, measured in terms of earnings and probability of arrest. We observe that women obtain on average 32% less criminal earnings and …

Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper argues that norms on the appropriate pay for … women compared to men explain these findings. We take citizens’ approval of an equal rights amendment to the Swiss … constitution as a proxy for the norm that “women and men shall have the right to equal pay for work of equal value”. We find that …

narrowing of the uncorrected gender pay gap from the mid-1990s. Women top executives earn between 8% to 25% less than male … gap is statistically related to the gender of the Chief Executive and Corporate Board Chair. Women CEO and Board Chairs …Using data on Executive Compensation from Standard and Poor's ExecuComp, this paper explores the gender gap in top …

This paper examines the hypothesis that the gender salary gap observed in the academic labour market is predominantly … analysis reveals that the crowding of women into the lower rungs of academia is a strong determinant of their lower average … salary. This effect should be transitory as young women, now entering the profession, move up its ranks. We construct a rank …

job dissatisfaction, particularly amongst men. While women who experience gender discrimination are somewhat more likely …This paper examines the links between survey-based reports of sexual harassment and gender discrimination. In … particular, we are interested in assessing whether these concepts measure similar forms of gender-biased behavior and whether …