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 culture impacts within-couple gender inequality. Exploiting the setting of Germany's division … and reunification, I compare child penalties of couples socialised in a more gender-egalitarian culture (East Germany) to … those in a gender-traditional culture (West Germany). Using a household panel, I show that the long-run child penalty on the …

We analyze the impact of women’s managerial representation on the gender pay gap among employees on the establishment … share of women in management significantly reduces the gender pay gap within the firm. An increase in the share of women in … first-level management e.g. from zero to above 33 percent decreases the adjusted gender pay gap from a baseline of 15 …

We report on two experiments investigating whether there is a gender difference in thewillingness to compete against … one online marketexperiment, involving a total of 1,200 participants, we replicate the gender-gap inwillingness to other …-compete but find no evidence of a gender difference in the willingnessto self-compete. We explore the roles of risk and confidence …

significantly so). Further, gender inequity in source countries is associated with son preference in fertility among immigrants. For … immigrants from source countries with less gender equity. Finally, we find no evidence of sex selection for the general …

We contribute to the research on gender representation in economics by documenting the share of women among economists …

Germany has a large persistent Gender Pay Gap of 21%; although this gap is not constant across occupations. The … question arises why some occupations have large Gender Pay Gaps while others have only small gaps. Using data from the … uncover the relationship between occupational characteristics and the Gender Pay Gap. To do so, I apply a two-step approach …

We examine the introduction of a gender quota law in Germany, mandating a minimum 30% of the underrepresented gender on …

We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working … in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is … - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to three percentage-points lower for hourly wages in female …

decide upon the allocation of an unpaid task serving as our proxy for housework. In our gender neutral lab, we find tax …-effects only on men’s labor supply but not on women’s and no gender differences in the allocation of housework. Instead, the … overcome the gender neutral lab. …