plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender pay gap. Controlling for match fixed effects we …

gender differences in job separation rates to employment and nonemployment. In line with descriptive evidence, we find lower … affect separations differently by gender. When additionally controlling for wages, we find that both separation rates are … considerably lower and also significantly less wage-elastic for women than for men. -- job separations ; gender ; gender pay gap …

Using a large employer-employee dataset, we provide new evidence on the relationship between the gender pay gap and … introducing or abandoning collective agreements or works councils affects the gender pay gap. This result holds at the mean and … along the distribution, challenging the stylized fact that unions and works councils dampen the gender pay gap. …

men's (which is the reverse of gender differences in labor supply usually found at the level of the market). One … implication of these findings is that the gender pay gap could be the result of wage discrimination by profit …