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diversity suggests positive effects of gender diverse boards on corporate governance and even firm performance. The mechanism …

Germany in the time period 1985-2002. Returns to education are estimated using Mincer equations. We analyze microcensus data … first time for Germany in such detail. The data indicate an educational expansion, especially for women in West Germany …, which is coherent with the relatively high returns to this group. One interesting finding is that each gender reaches the …

Most existing analyses on the gender wage gap (GWG) have neglected the establishment as a place where inequality … the individual and consider the importance of the workplace to explain gender pay differentials. That is, we first provide … Germany. The innovation of our research is that we do not just compare average male and female wages (of specific groups of …

The closing of the gender wage gap is an ongoing phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, research has been … women to that of men. In this study, we use a new approach for analyzing changes in the gender pay gap that uses direct …. Using data from West Germany, we find that women have witnessed relative increases in nonroutine analytic tasks and non …

, performance related pay schemes and other relevant trends in personnel policy on the gender wage gap. Our results indicate that … that we use linked employer-employee data to look at within-firm gender wage differentials. To investigate the theoretical … hypotheses regarding the effect of selected human resource measures on gender wage inequality, we calculate a firm …

This paper studies the importance of employer-specific determinants in escaping low earnings in Germany. To address the … ergeben sich jedoch unterschiedliche Muster in Abhängigkeit vom Geschlecht. So haben Männer in größeren Betrieben signifikant …

This paper analyses the developments in the returns to education in West Germany for the period from 1984 to 1997 …