This paper analyses the impact of family background, gender and cohort on educational attainment in France and Germany … with respect to the impact of family background and cohorts. However, there are significant dissimilarities depending on … the stage observed in the educational career, in particular with respect to gender differences. …

Using information on family background, we estimate returns to education, allowing for the heterogeneity of returns. In … order to control for the unobserved heterogeneity shared by family members, we construct a siblings sample and employ family … fixed-effects and family correlated random-effects models. Our main result is that family background still matters despite …

returns for women. Taken alone, the developments related to education would have increased the gender wage gap significantly … labour market experience have a neutral influence on the gender wage gap. Women improved their relative position concerning …This paper analyses the extent to which gender differences in human capital contribute to explaining the observable …

women to that of men. In this study, we use a new approach for analyzing changes in the gender pay gap that uses direct …The closing of the gender wage gap is an ongoing phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, research has been … measures of job tasks and gives a comprehensive characterization of how work for men and women has changed in recent decades …

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 … employees), but look at within-firm gender wage differentials. Our results indicate that the mean GWG within firms is smaller …