. The education gender gap was eliminated and married women's LFP averaged 70% over the same ages. In order to evaluate the … LFP. To eliminate the education gender gap requires, on the other hand, for the psychic cost of obtaining higher education …

jointly, however, mainly due to the lack of relevant data. This paper addresses this shortcoming by looking at the gender … identify people by country of residence, place of birth, gender and level of education. The evidence summarized in this paper … are now more or less gender-balanced. A more surprising result is that this is also true for the highly skilled. Taking …

I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment – sibling gender composition – affects women …'s gender conformity, measured through their choice of occupation and partner. Using Danish administrative data, I causally … a brother acquire more traditional gender norms with negative consequences for their labor earnings. I provide evidence …

on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board director matched panel data for Norway and Germany …, when a Norwegian board gender quota came into effect. We present two novel results that challenge previous thinking about … the effects of board gender quotas on women directors. First, we find a positive impact of employee representation before …

This paper documents an important but mostly overlooked reason for female underrepresentation in politics: gender gaps … council elections (2001-2016) in a German state, we provide evidence for a gender recontest gap among both incumbent and non …

share of women in workplaces. The paper ponders if better management of gender relations may improve unions' fate …

In Germany, an intensive public debate about increasing female participation in leadership positions started in 2009 … and proceeded until the beginning of 2015, when the German parliament enacted a board gender quota. In that period, the … investigate whether the rise in female board representation was accompanied by a change in gender differences in board member …

This study used data from the German Socio-economic Panel to examine gender differences in the extent to which self … it all", but women must still choose between career and family in Germany. We argue that interventions need to address …

on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and … development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …

In Germany, there is a vivid political debate on introducing a general statutory minimum wage. In this paper, we study … ambiguous reactions. An empirical analysis for Germany shows that minimum wages would affect total labor supply only weakly. Yet …