Die Entlohnung von Frauen in Führungspositionen bleibt deutlich hinter der von Männern zurück. Unter Kostenaspekten müsste dies für Arbeitgeber ein Anreiz sein, Frauen zu beschäftigen. Tatsächlich sind Frauen in höheren Positionen aber nach wie vor viel seltener vertreten als Männer....

Der Unterschied im Bruttostundenverdienst zwischen Frauen und Männern - der sogenannte Gender Pay Gap - verharrt unter Angestellten seit Jahren bei etwa 30 Prozent. Für den Verdienstunterschied spielen offenbar auch regionale Faktoren eine wichtige Rolle. Der Gender Pay Gap ist in ländlichen...

This study used data from the German Socio-economic Panel to examine gender differences in the extent to which self-reported subjective well-being was associated with occupying a high-level managerial position in the labour market, compared with employment in non-leadership, non-high-level...

This paper aims to verify results of the innovative study on gender identity for the USA by Bertrand et al. (2015) for Germany. They found that women who would earn more than their husbands distort their labor market outcome in order not to violate traditional gender identity norms. Using data...

The paper analyzes the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions based on German panel data and using fixed-effects models. It deals with the effect of occupational sex segregation on wages, and the extent to which wage penalties for managers in predominantly female occupations are...

Changing employment conditions lead to new chances, but also new risks for employees. In the literature, increasing permeability between occupational and private life is discussed as one special outcome of this development that employees must face, especially those in highly qualified positions....