In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor's degree in Economics, arguably an …

, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic … performance and their labor market income. We exploit the within-school, cohort-by-cohort variation in the gender composition of … not find significant effects of the high school class gender composition on women. Our results are consistent with the …

. Moreover, there is often a lack in diversity amongst managerial boards. We investigate the role of managers’ gender and …

This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a …/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work … students' preferences for professionals and find that gender differences in information provision would remain if students …

This paper investigates beliefs concerning the gender gap in salary negotiations (GGSN) in a sample of 4,300 women, 1 …

We study the persistence of the gender unemployment gap in the Italian regions in the 1992-2009 period. Results from … unit-root tests analysis with structural break suggest that the process of gender catching-up in the unemployment rates is … labour markets. -- gender unemployment gap ; regional disparities ; unit-root tests with structural break …

We examine behavioral gender differences and gender pairing effects in a laboratory experiment with face … than female employers pay to male employees. Moreover, we find gender differences in the first offers of the bargaining … game. -- gender differences ; wage bargaining ; labor market experiment …

Using PSID microdata over the 1980-2010, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender … explained little of the gender wage gap, while gender differences in occupation and industry continued to be important. Moreover …, the gender pay gap declined much more slowly at the top of the wage distribution that at the middle or the bottom and by …