Social norms and attitudes towards gender roles have been shown to have a large effect on economic outcomes of men and … women. Many countries have introduced policies that aim at changing gender stereotypes, for example fathers' quota in … caused a sharp increase in the take-up of parental leave by fathers, has changed the attitudes towards gender roles in the …

We analyze the impact of women’s managerial representation on the gender pay gap among employees on the establishment … share of women in management significantly reduces the gender pay gap within the firm. An increase in the share of women in … first-level management e.g. from zero to above 33 percent decreases the adjusted gender pay gap from a baseline of 15 …

Using quantile regression methods, this paper analyses the gender wage gap across the wage distribution and over time …-corrected gender wage gap is much larger than the one observed in the data, which is mainly due to large positive selection of women …, however, neither the observed nor the selection-corrected gender wage gap has narrowed over time …

. Several work/care policy measures underlie this evolution. At the same time, the labor market behavior of men and fathers, as … well as their involvement in care work, is relatively unchanging, meaning that employed mothers are facing an increased … fathers and mothers to both work in extended part-time employment. It provides a benefit in form of a lumpsum transfer or …

. We apply the empirical frame- work to evaluate an in-work benefit for low-paid parents in the German institutional … context. The benefit is supposed to increase work incentives for secondary earners. Based on the structural model we are able … intensive and extensive margin. We find that the in-work benefit for parents substantially increases working hours of mothers of …