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 …

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 … candidacy. Studying mechanisms, we find that women are likely held back by incompatibilities between family obligations and …

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 … estimate the effect of having a second-born brother relative to a sister for first-born women. The results show that women with …

share of women in workplaces. The paper ponders if better management of gender relations may improve unions' fate …The paper re-examines the question of why unions might have declined despite the 'influx' of women, their risk …

We investigate the historical determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in the late nineteenth century … Italian cities among themselves and with the rest of the world. The effect of medieval commerce is particularly strong at the …

we find a raw gender wage gap (GWG) in hourly wages of around 0.18-0.21 log points. The regression-adjusted gap is around … closes because women's wages rise with the share female managers in the workplace while men's wages fall. Panel and … proposition that women are more likely to be paid equitably when managers have discretion in the way they reward performance and …

This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … larger proportion of female peers reduces women's probability of enrolling in and graduating from STEM programs. Men's STEM …

anonymised person whose gender is known. We found that only men respond to pressure differently in each situation; women …Gender differences in paid performance under competition have been found in many laboratory-based experiments, and it … has been suggested that these may arise because men and women respond differently to psychological pressure in competitive …

labour force participation of women, without reducing the fertility rate, is needed. In the year 2000, with the aim of … increasing women's labour market participation, a partial individualisation of the Irish income tax system was initiated. Using … on female labour supply and caring duties. I find that the labour force participation rate of married women increased by …

evidence suggest that it may be problematic for women to reach a white-collar high skill job, also in the more protected public … periods of up to 20 years (for Egypt), we examine the evolution of the glass ceiling problem for women resorting to the … matching approach, which, to our knowledge, has never been used in this field. Instead of looking at the gender gap along the …