piece-rate wage, we investigate the causal effect of neutral and gender-discriminatory unfair chances on labor supply. We …, unfair based on an unspecified source, or unfair based on gender discrimination. Unequal pay reduces labor supply of low … chances matters. When a low wage is the result of gender-discriminatory chances, workers matched with a high-wage worker …

This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … effects on occupational sorting, the gender wage gap, and fertility …

We propose a competitive general equilibrium theory of gender discrimination in labor market where male and female …

In Austria, a gender pay transparency law was introduced in 2011, requiring companies with more than 1,000 employees to …. We estimate the impact of the law on men’s wages, women’s wages, and the gender pay gap using administrative data. The … results from a regression discontinuity design suggest that the wage transparency law did not change wages or the gender wage …

The vast majority of existing studies that estimate the average unexplained gender pay gap use unnecessarily … unexplained gender pay gap. We study the sensitivity of the estimates with regard to i) the availability of observationally … factors matter greatly. Blinder-Oaxaca estimates of the unexplained gender pay gap decline by up to 39% when we enforce …

Gender differences in overconfidence have been extensively documented in the empirical literature, but the implications …, combined with competitive job incentives, affects gender equality in the labor market and discuss policy implications. The …

-reaching implications for gender inequality, household specialization and family structure. Using population register data on all births … losses concentrated on women, and gender inequality increases. The gender-specific effects are due to a woman's ability to …-earning women in their late 30s contribute strongly to the gender difference in fertility because switching to new comparable …

This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap … derived from a random utility maximization model of migration that accounts for migrants’ gender. Instrumental variable … estimates indicate that increasing gender equality in economic or political rights generally deepens the GMG, i.e., it reduces …

on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board–director matched panel data for Norway and Germany …, when a Norwegian board gender quota came into effect. We present two novel results that challenge previous thinking about … the effects of board gender quotas on women directors. First, we find a positive impact of employee representation before …

generated discontinuous changes in U.S. trade ows. We find that the impacts of the export shock on employment, income, and home …