gender wage gap to assess the contribution of observed characteristics measuring individual productivity. We fi nd that the … gender wage gap narrowed by more than 13 percent at the lowest decile and by less than 4 percent at the highest decile. The … decomposition results indicate that changes in the gender wage gap are mainly attributable to changes in educational attainment at …

economists. However, up to now empirical evidence on gender differentials of labor market entrants and the determinants of their … representative German university, to investigate whether – even for such a homogeneous group of labor market entrants – a gender gap … major part of this gap remains unexplained by gender differences in observable characteristics. …

occupational injuries. It is therefore remarkable that almost all studies analyzing the gender wage gap have disregarded different … occupational injury risks as a potential explanatory variable for observed gender wage differentials. By merging data on … occupational injury risks to German and US panel data on individual workers, this study analyzes gender wage differentials in …

Using German linked employer-employee data this paper investigates the gender wage gap at the time of entering the … labour market and its development during workers’ early career. The analysis contributes to the existing research on gender … lower-paying industries, occupations, establishments and job-cells, i.e. occupations within establishments. The estimation …

- influence his or her contribution to housework? (2) If so, does the magnitude of this influence differ by gender? and (3) How … important are traditional gender roles on housework allocation? We address these issues by applying panel quantile regression …, with the latter effect being roughly equal across genders. At the same time, traditional gender roles also appear to …

We propose a new explanation for differences and changes in labor supply by gender and marital status, and in … and allow agents to trade home labor. This model can generate the observed patterns in US labor supply by gender and …

In this paper, we propose a new estimation strategy that uses the variation in success between the male and the female … national soccer team within a country to identify the causal impact of gender equality on women’s soccer performance. In … genders, which serve as measures for the country’s gender equality, are able to explain differences in the international …

indicate that there are hardly significant gender differences in the determinants of self-initiated training while employer …, besides job characteristics, as important factors determining the gender gap in employer-provided training participation. …