education of their most educated parent, regardless of their gender and this correlation is higher for female than for male … degree of mobility across genders, with a higher mobility level for daughters than for sons. The reason for this gender gap … parents, females have a lower chance of remaining without school certificate and a greater probability to achieve a tertiary …

How far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to be internationally … competitive? And what would accomplishing this mean for world development? Based on the micro data of international and regional … skills for 159 countries that cover 98.1% of world population and 99.4% of world GDP. We find that at least two-thirds of the …

Many occupations and industries are highly segregated with respect to gender. This segregation could be due to … perceived job-specific productivity differences between men and women. It could also result from the belief that single-gender … personnel managers. The subjects bet on the productivity of teams of different gender compositions in tasks that differ with …

To obtain a more complete understanding of the persisting gender earnings gap in Germany, this paper investigates both … the cross-sectional and biographical dimension of gender inequalities. Using an Oaxaca Blinder decomposition, we show that … the gender gap in annual earnings is largely driven by women's lower work experience and intensive margin of labor supply …

gender equality is aligned with shareholder interests. This positive effect is not explained by increased risk-taking or …

This paper studies the evolution of three higher education wage differentials from 1996 to 2019 in Germany, a period …

evidence that these findings have implications for the effectiveness of gender quotas. …