differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps …In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this … lecture I briefly survey some recent studies aiming to explain why apparently identical women and men receive such different …

This paper reports the results of the Royal Economic Society Women's Committee 1998 survey on the gender balance in UK … reasons for the low representation of women in academic economics, and also argue that it is a cause for concern …

Part-time jobs are popular among partnered women in many countries. In the Netherlands the majority of partnered … working women have a part-time job. Our paper investigates, from a supply-side perspective, if the current situation of … abundant part-time work in the Netherlands is likely to be a transitional phase that will culminate in many women working full …

Part-time jobs are popular among partnered women in many countries. In the Netherlands the majority of partnered … working women have a part-time job. Our paper investigates, from a supply-side perspective, if the current situation of … abundant part-time work in the Netherlands is likely to be a transitional phase that will culminate in many women working full …

Part-time jobs are popular among partnered women in many countries. In the Netherlands the majority of partnered … working women have a part-time job. Our paper investigates, from a supply-side perspective, if the current situation of … abundant part-time work in the Netherlands is likely to be a transitional phase that will culminate in many women working full …

anonymised person whose gender is known. We found that only men respond to pressure differently in each situation; women …Gender differences in paid performance under competition have been found in many laboratory-based experiments, and it … has been suggested that these may arise because men and women respond differently to psychological pressure in competitive …

norms, including the promotion of gender equality in place of the Confucian view of female 'inferiority'. Market … consequence social norms gradually changed again. In our experiment we investigate gender differences in competitive choices … regimes outlined above. In particular we investigate gender differences in competitive choices for different birth cohorts in …

mixed-gender races than in all-women races, whereas men racer's time is faster in mixed-gender races than men-only races. In …In speedboat racing in Japan, women racers participate and compete in races under the same conditions as men, and all … individuals are randomly assigned to mixed-gender or single-gender groups for each race. In this paper we use a sample of over 140 …

Using the European Community Household Panel, we investigate gender differences in training participation over the …/private sector affiliation, educational attainment, and the individual?s position in the wage distribution prior to training. Women … are typically no less likely than men to train. While there is no significant training-age profile for women, there is a …