of what is recognized in mainstream theory and policy as work done by women. Thus, the traditional gender roles, with the …We need to go beyond the accepted notions relating to the role of women in the economy and society, especially in terms … man as the breadwinner and the woman in the role of housekeeper, do not explain the contribution of women in general. We …

registered partnership are equally discriminated in comparison to the heterosexual women in the city of Munich, no discrimination …

, therefore, use a unique example to examine this question empirically: the analysis of gender wage differentials. Here, the …

-National Equivalent File. Our main interest is to test whether a glass ceiling exists for women. Conventional thinking about the glass … ceiling highlights the belief that the playing field is level for women and men in the labor market up to a certain point …, after which there is an effective limit on advancement for women. We examine the glass ceiling hypothesis by looking at the …

We examine the upward labor income mobility of men and women in Germany using the GSOEP Cross National Equivalent File …. Women have greater overall income mobility. However, utilizing a measure of upward income mobility and calculating the … posterior probability that men's upward income mobility is greater than women's, we find that men have overall greater upward …

Gender segregation in the labor market may be explained by women's re-luctance to choose technical occupations … the classroom and unequal treatment by teachers. In this paper, we identify the causal impact of gender composition in … students. We address the problem of endogenous school choice by using nat-ural variation in gender composition of adjacent …

of gender equality, especially an increase in women?s access to the labour market, in bringing about a reduction in …This Working Paper investigates the possible link between gender inequalities in the labour market and significant … Latin American countries. We consider four aspects of gender inequalities: differences in labour market participation …

An important line of recent literature has found gender differences in attitudes toward competition, with men being …. This paper examines the effect of information on the gender gap in tournament entry. We present experimental evidence that … the competitiveness difference between men and women declines significantly when individuals are given performance …

importance of structural change in reducing gender disparities by decreasing the labor demand for physical attributes. The … results show that India, the country with the greatest physical labor requirements, exhibits the largest labor market gender … inequality. In contrast, Brazil's labor requirements have followed a similar trend seen in the United States, reducing gender …