This paper aims to verify results of the innovative study on gender identity for the USA by Bertrand et al. (2015) for … violate traditional gender identity norms. Using data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP) we also find that the … exceeds the husband’s income. The results of the fixed effects regression confirm that gender identity has an impact on the …

We study the impact of selection bias on estimates of the gender pay gap, focusing on whether the gender pay gap has … find robust evidence that, after controlling for selection, there were large declines in the raw and the unexplained gender … and actual labor market experience. However, we note that substantial gender wage gaps remain. In 2015, at the median, the …

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 …

Using quantile regression methods, this paper analyses the gender wage gap across the wage distribution and over time … (1990-2014), while controlling for changing sample selection into full-time employment. Our findings show that the selection …-corrected gender wage gap is much larger than the one observed in the data, which is mainly due to large positive selection of women …

There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for … gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In …-generation immigrants, both women and men, from source countries with more gender equality (as measured by the World Economic Forum’s Global …