lower tail. We further document substantial gender differences in average earnings and inequality over the life cycle. While …

2016, there was an average gender pay gap of 30 percent in gross hourly earnings. If gender-specific differences in … experience explains the gender pay gap to almost a quarter according to the present study based on data from the Socio …-Economic Panel (Sozio-ökonomisches Panel, SOEP). In order to reduce the gender pay gap, measures are needed to counteract the large …

In Germany, the number of women in relationships who are in gainful employment is on the rise. According to recent … for this development is the increasing shift of women out of unemployment and into part-time and marginal employment …, particularly in western Germany. In eastern Germany, where female employment and working hours have long been higher than in the …

Gender Pay Gap im Bruttostundenverdienst von 30 Prozent. Werden geschlechtsspezifische Unterschiede in relevanten … Verdienstdeterminanten herausgerechnet, verbleibt eine Verdienstlücke von elf Prozent. Eine hohe Erklärungskraft für den Gender Pay Gap …

estimations clearly indicate that these differences cannot account for gender differences in the promotion probability to a large …

Almost a quarter of a century after the fall of the Wall, there are still more women in employment in eastern Germany …. Immediately after reunification (1991), the employment rate for women in western Germany was 54.6 percent but since then, this has … increased year on year, reaching 67.5 percent in 2012. In eastern Germany, female employment initially plummeted after the fall …