work done by parents. There is much speculation over whether the pandemic increased or decreased gender equality in … parental care work. Based on representative data for Germany we present an empirical analysis that shows greater support for … couples where the mother is left completely or almost completely alone with the care work. We see only small increases in the …

Social norms and attitudes towards gender roles have been shown to have a large effect on economic outcomes of men and … women. Many countries have introduced policies that aim at changing gender stereotypes, for example fathers' quota in … caused a sharp increase in the take-up of parental leave by fathers, has changed the attitudes towards gender roles in 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 …

Using quantile regression methods, this paper analyses the gender wage gap across the wage distribution and over time …-corrected gender wage gap is much larger than the one observed in the data, which is mainly due to large positive selection of women …, however, neither the observed nor the selection-corrected gender wage gap has narrowed over time …

. We apply the empirical frame- work to evaluate an in-work benefit for low-paid parents in the German institutional … context. The benefit is supposed to increase work incentives for secondary earners. Based on the structural model we are able … intensive and extensive margin. We find that the in-work benefit for parents substantially increases working hours of mothers of …