participation (LFP) averaged 40% between the ages of thirty and forty. The cohort born twenty years later behaved very differently …. 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 …

where full participation by women was the norm by 2000 rather than the rarity that it had been 30 years earlier. This paper …

We use monthly personnel records of a large German company to analyse the gender wage gap (GWG). Main findings are: (1 … significant impact on the GWG; (8) the gender gap in absenteeism is between 26 and 46 percent. Overall, the results are consistent … with statistical discrimination explanations of the gender wage gap, though we cannot rule out other forms of …

In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the … sources. We show that our gender-specific crosswalk more accurately captures the trends in occupational segregation that are …

Using data from 1998, we show that the gender log wage gap in Sweden increases throughout the wage distribution and … pattern either for the log wage gap between immigrants and non-immigrants in the Swedish labor market or for the gender gap in … the U.S. labor market. Our findings suggest that a gender-specific mechanism in the Swedish labor market hinders women …

that a larger share of Protestants decreased the gender gap in basic education. This result holds when using only the …. Similar results are found for the gender gap in literacy among the adult population in 1871. …

This paper analyses the gender wage gaps by education throughout the wage distribution in Spain using individual data … component of the gender gap not explained by different characteristics. Our main findings are two-fold. First, in contrast with … in view of the low participation rate of women in this group. Such a hypothesis is confirmed when using the panel …

gender and female representation in the top rung of the executive market. Though the status of females in the executive … gender equality is achieved and the glass ceiling is removed in the executive market. …