In this paper, I offer a theoretical explanation of the robust gender differences in educational achievement …

measures of female entrepreneurship: the number of female entrepreneurs and the share of women in the total number of …

reveal typical gender differences but also detect divergence to their German counterparts. While disclosingItalian …

We use monthly personnel records of a large German company to analyse the gender wage gap (GWG). Main findings are: (1 … significant impact on the GWG; (8) the gender gap in absenteeism is between 26 and 46 percent... …

have reduced, in the case of Belarus women activity rate has been practically unchanged despite an increase in the gender …Unlike in many other transition countries, where the gender pay gap has remained stable while female employment rates …

There is ample evidence that women do not react to competition as mendo and are less willing to enter a competition … understand the underlying motives of women (and men) toenter a competition or avoid it. We use the Big Five personality factors … women who do notchoose competititive incentives \know" that they should not.[...] …

period in which educational policies intent on equating gender opportunities in education were implemented. To this end we …

explicitly gender-biased in a discriminatory sense, it is well recognisedthat they have significant gender effects. To the extent … that women earn less than men onaverage under tax-benefit systems that are progressive, there is some redistribution … frommen to women overall... …