% more likely to experience income losses than their male counterparts. Conversely, we do not find a comparable gender gap … among employees. Our results further suggest that the gender gap among the self-employed is largely explained by the fact …

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 …

We investigate the drivers of gender differentials in hiring chances. More concretely, we test (i) whether recruiters … perceive job applicants in gender stereotypical terms when making hiring decisions and (ii) whether the activation of these … gender stereotypes in recruiters' minds varies by the salience of gender in a particular hiring context and the gender …

We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and … higher for natives than for immigrants. However, since the differential in productivity gains associated with over …

Our paper makes a first attempt to address the impact of skills and skill use in the analysis of the gender wage gap … with regard to wage regressions of men as well as women. When we take skills into account in the gender wage gap analysis …, the unexplained part of the gender wage gap is reduced by almost 4 percentage points along the whole wage distribution …

A growing number of academic studies are devoting their attention to the study of the gender wage gap. This paper …, Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition analysis and quantile decomposition. Findings suggest that a gender gap in hourly wages exists …

ethnic-minority background. It is suggested that the joint effect of productivity uncertainties and distastes against ethnic …