The gender wage gap is to a significant extent driven by gender-based job segregation. One of the potential culprits … experiment, we disentangle the roles of gender, field of study, and task difficulty in promotion application decisions. Our study … pro- vides three crucial findings. First, gender differences in self-limiting promotion application behavior are only …

medienwissenschaftlichen Geschlechterforschung und der kulturorientierten Journalismusforschung diskutiert. … economy. This includes particularly a comparison between the two sectors as well as between gender groups. The study consists … seven months in 2008. In discussing the results of the study, this paper adopts a deconstructive approach to gender studies …

We present evidence on the role of the social environment for the development of gender differences in competitiveness … and earnings expectations. First, we document that the gender gap in competitiveness and earnings expectations is more … causally affects girls' willingness to compete and narrows both the gender gap in competitiveness as well as the gender gap in …

also face more discrimination in the labour market, the consequences of overeducation are likely to differ by gender. Using …

according to income levels and gender. This paper is based on the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD) carried out by the …, the gender gap in average commutingtimes has been reduced considerably over the period considered with only small gaps …

This article considers the complexity of ea rly employment life-courses focusing on the heterogeneity by gender and …

strong evidence for gender-specific norms in risk taking. While these explain part of the existing gender gap in risk taking …

pattern by the presence of two household goods and socially learned gender-specific comparative advantage in their home … production. We label this gender specialisation as separate housework spheres. Empirical evidence strongly confirms separate …