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 …

This paper examines how worker skills and job application behavior contribute to the gender wage gap on a major online … freelancing platform. We observe significant occupational sorting by gender, with women over-represented in lower-paying project … categories and tending to earn less than men even within the same categories. The unexplained gender wage gap conditional on …

, however, do not contribute to a further closing of the gender wage gap. …

reports on the gender pay gap. Using an event-study design, we show that the policy had no discernible effects on male and … female wages, thus leaving the gender wage gap unchanged. The effects are precisely estimated and we rule out that the policy … narrowed the gender wage gap by more than 0.4 p.p.. Moreover, we do not find evidence for wage compression within …

A comprehensive descriptive analysis of gender wage differences over a long time period is missing for West Germany … well as life-cycle and birth cohort effects, we go beyond conventional decomposition techniques of the average gender wage … gap. The paper provides some stylized facts of the level and dynamics of the gender wage gap from 1975 - 1995. The …

private than in the public sector. Our test results show that, contrary to the public sector, there are no gender differences …