understanding of principal-agent interactions, social preferences, union-firm bargaining, arbitration, gender differentials …

This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure … show that the gender difference in the probability of getting a job increases along the wage ladder from 9% to 50%. Females …

national origin and ethnicity, and on experimental as well as survey evidence collected in France, puts this syllogism to a … test. Our data show that Muslim and Christian gender norms are as postulated. However, the correlations between Muslim vs …. Christian immigrants and the channels purported to link in-group gender norms to economic progress are weak and inconsistent …

This paper analyses the intra-household allocation of time to show gender differences in childcare. In the framework of … characteristics, for five samples (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain), with data being drawn from the European Community …

reduced the prevalence of stereotypes associated with jobs in science and gender differences in abilities, but it made the … influence female students' choice of study. Results suggest that emphasis on the gender theme is less important to the …

This article analyzes the extent to which changes in household composition over the life course affect the gender … division of labor. It identifies and analyzes cross-country disparities between France, Italy, Sweden and United States, using … most recent data available from the Time Use National Surveys. We focus on gender differences in the allocation of time …

comparing the gender wage gap across four countries, Australia, France, Japan and Britain. Our results concord with those of …In a series of studies written during the 1980s Bob Gregory and his co-authors compared the gender wage gap in … different gender wage gaps but rather the rewards for these endowments. They concluded that country-specific factors, especially …

This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of … the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed linked employer-employee data, we show that … by real wage losses below the median. Coverage by collective wage bargaining plummets by 16.5 (19.1) percentage points …

This paper presents evidence from a large-scale study on gender differences in expected wages before labor market entry …. Based on data for over 15,000 students, we document a significant and large gender gap in wage expectations that closely … and negotiation styles affect the gender gap in wage expectations much more than prospective child-related labor force …