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 …

This study establishes the influence of sex-based grammatical gender on gendered violence. We demonstrate a … are consistent with the theoretical possibility that gendered language activates gender schemata in the minds of speakers …, increasing the salience of gender distinctions and existing gender norms which legitimize gendered violence. …

Persistent gender gaps characterize labor markets in many African countries. Utilizing Eswatini's first three labor … market surveys (conducted in 2007, 2010, and 2013), this paper provides first systematic evidence on the country's gender … the global financial crisis had a less negative impact on women than it had on men. Both unadjusted and unexplained gender …

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 …

that discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender does exist also in online labor markets. Contributions to the … the discrimination faced my homosexual job candidates compared to heterosexuals. Our experimental design allows us to … orientation or the gender of the applicants, led to the observation that females and gay men faced a significantly lower chance of …

in reducing gender gap in employment. …

We study the gender gap in the duration of sick leave in Spain by splitting this duration into two types of days …

respect of discrimination by gender. Accordingly, much of the discussion focuses on the role of discrimination in driving a …This paper provides an overview of theory and empirical evidence on earnings discrimination within the workplace …. Earnings discrimination occurs when employees producing work of equal value are differentially remunerated because of their …

show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for … by gender disparities in non-local employment, with mothers being more likely to give up non-local employment compared to … fathers. This gender specialisation is mostly driven by opposing job location responses of men and women to individual …