. The present paper highlights this problem referring to institutional details and empirical results related to Germany and …

The gender pay gap and the gender gap in employment remains persistent in Europe despite the basic assertion of gender … equality under EU law. We assess the factors that influence the gender pay gap and gender employment gap across European … generalized method of moment model (GMM). The main conclusions confirm that tertiary education significantly reduces gender pay …

-related gender inequality in earnings and (ii) assesses the impact of family policies on this inequality. We present three sets of … the 2000s. Second, we decompose overall gender inequality into child-related and child-unrelated components. Over our …-third to the increase in child-related gender inequality. Instead, a parental benefit reform in 2007 mitigated further …

This paper documents an important but mostly overlooked reason for female underrepresentation in politics: gender gaps … council elections (2001-2016) in a German state, we provide evidence for a gender recontest gap among both incumbent and non …

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

Economic development is often held to be beneficial for gender equality. However, there is good reason to believe that … empirical assessment of the relative importance of development and historical determinants of gender equality at the cross …-national level. To capture this long-term relationship, a new index of gender equality that stretches back to 1960 is introduced …

We study whether mothers' labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed … information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads … conforming gender role attitudes to their peers', with the remaining half being explained by the spillover effect of peers' labor …

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. …