differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps. -- Glass ceiling ; experimental economics ; personality …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 …

and women from the British Household Panel Survey. We find that men have the highest hours-of-work satisfaction if they … many hours they work. Life satisfaction is influenced only by whether or not they have a job. For women we are confronted … with a puzzle. Hours satisfaction and job satisfaction indicate that women prefer part-time jobs irrespective of whether …