Despite numerous measures intended to enhance gender equality, gender-specific study and career choices remain a … 105 pairs of occupations, and the respondents are not informed about the gender distribution of the two occupations …. Results show that adults are gender-neutral when advising a daughter but have a pronounced preference for male …

growing evidence on the external relevance of competitiveness by analysing gender differences in the correlation between … matching a large experimental dataset with administrative data identifying contract terminations, we find that both gender and …

growing evidence on the external relevance of competitiveness by analysing gender differences in the correlation between … matching a large experimental dataset with administrative data identifying contract terminations, we find that both gender and …

compete is a predictor of individual and gender differences in career decisions and labor market outcomes. However, most … more than 1500 Swiss lower-secondary school students to ask how the gender gap in willingness to compete varies with …. The gender gap in willingness to compete is essentially zero among the lowest-ability students, but increases steadily …

Occupational choices remain strongly segregated by gender, for reasons not yet fully understood. In this paper, we use … suggests that this variable is by any statistical measure among the most important proximate predictors of occupational gender … additional data, we finally also show that the gender difference in occupational preferences is largely independent of individual …

We empirically test the hypothesis that adolescents' occupational aspirations are more gender-stereotypical if they … live in regions where the societal norm towards gender equality is weaker. For our analysis, we combine rich survey data … describing a sample of 1,434 Swiss adolescents in 8th grade with municipal voting results dealing with gender equality and policy …

We empirically test the hypothesis that adolescents' occupational aspirations are more gender-stereotypical if they … live in regions where the societal norm towards gender equality is weaker. For our analysis, we combine rich survey data … describing a sample of 1,434 Swiss adolescents in 8th grade with municipal voting results dealing with gender equality and policy …

growing evidence on the external relevance of competitiveness by analysing gender differences in the correlation between … matching a large experimental dataset with administrative data identifying contract terminations, we find that both gender and …