analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …. If control variables are added, estimates are split by gender and different effects of over- and underweight people are …. Underweight women earn more and overweight less than others. For normal-weight men the income is on average higher than for over …

and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their … academic performance and their labor market income. We leverage the fact that the composition of high school classmates (peers … in income or labor market outcomes after college. We do not find significant effects on women. …

This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination … endogeneity issues through a diff GMM-IV estimator. Our models also test for gender-based discrimination. Empirical results for …

the production of a firm meets final demand) on workers' wages. It also investigates whether results vary along the … earnings distribution and by gender. Findings, based on unique matched employer-employee data relative to the Belgian … manufacturing industry for the period 2002-2010, show that workers earn significantly higher wages when employed in more upstream …

Although male employees are increasingly making use of parental leave, gender differences in both usage and duration of … parental leave are still prevalent. In this contribution, we explore the role of gender for the relation between the incidence …

This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth …, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79). Its focus is upon mid-career promotion and wages … promoted in the private sector (and no less likely in the public sector); that wages are increasing in promotion, and the …

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 …

This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth …, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79). Its focus is upon mid-career promotion and wages … the private sector (and no less likely in the public sector); that wages are increasing in promotion, and the effect is …

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 …

interaction between rent-sharing and wages on the gender wage gap. The empirical findings show that individual compensation is …This paper analyzes the impact of workplace characteristics on individual wages based on a unique cross-section matched … be 14 percent and it is insignificantly different between genders. With respect to the overall gender wage gap (on …