matriculation exam each year than men, and this has been the case since 1978. We demonstrate how girls gradually manage (on average … distribution) that they maintain into adulthood. The high dropout rate of boys from secondary education explains why fewer people … encourage girls to excel. …

In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population … research explained why education enhances earnings; why earnings rise at a diminishing rate throughout one's life; why earnings … earn more than blacks; why occupational distributions differ by gender; why geographic and job mobility predominate among …

to education are higher for women than men in both countries; the gender gap has worsened in 2008, but more so for …

to education are higher for women than men in both countries; the gender gap has worsened in 2008, but more so for …

analyze gender differences in job search taking into account observed and unobserved worker heterogeneity and censoring … groups reveals that these differences are driven by differential behavior of prime age women. There is no significant …

Earnings in mid-career and children are two fundamental outcomes of the life-choices of men and women. Both require …, completed fertility and mid-career earnings. We find an overall increasing inequality in career and family outcomes of men … developments for men and women, we find that within-family specialization, measured by the average spousal earnings contribution …

, across and within gender, post democracy in Nigeria is explored. I make use of simple econometric tools to test two null … hypotheses. First, there is no disparity in the income and returns to education benefits of the shift to democracy across gender … in Nigeria. Second, there are no within gender disparities of the shift to democracy on income and returns to education …

. Further on we can show that this kind of gender-specific discrimination can be found particularly in leisure-time clubs and … for a discrimination of women in filling management positions in the volunteer sector. It turns out that women have a … gender specific differences in filling volunteer management positions. …