expensive older workers into retirement. Based on the seniority wage model developed by Lazear (1979), we discuss steep … seniority wage profiles as incentives for firms to dismiss older workers before retirement. Conditional on individual retirement … incentives, e.g., social security wealth or health status, the steepness of the wage profile will have different incentives for …

Two very different approaches are used to explore the relation between market orientation and gender wage differentials … in international data. More market orientation might be related to gender wage gaps via its effects on competition in … calculating internationally consistent gender wage residuals in the first place. By comparing these two very different methods of …

We show that providing publicly available wage information in vacancies, so-called external pay transparency, can … reduce the gender wage gap. There is an increasing interest in pay transparency policies as a tool to combat unequal pay. We … exploit a reform of Austria's Equal Treatment Law to evaluate how providing wage information in vacancies affects the gender …