-representation of women at the top: for example, if women became CEOs of firms with at least 20% female employment, sales per worker …

in a real-effort task that they have all performed in the past. We find that women are selected much less often as … underrepresentation of women, namely, gender differences in overconfidence concerning past performance, in the willingness to exaggerate …

the U.S. labor market. Our findings suggest that a gender-specific mechanism in the Swedish labor market hinders women …

lecture I briefly survey some recent studies aiming to explain why apparently identical women and men receive such different … differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps. …

characteristics. We find strong differences between men and women in assortativity. While positive assortative matching in job … on job-to-unemployment and job-to-self-employment transitions reveals a lower employer's willingness to retain women …. Overall, we find strong evidence of glass-ceilings in certain firms preventing women to climb the carrier ladder and pushing …

horizontal margin). This implies that women face many glass ceilings, one for each job level above the second, and that the glass … ceiling is a pervasive phenomenon. In the Netherlands it affects about 88% of jobs, and 81% of Dutch women in employment work …