female labor forces. We also find that the positive influence of women in top leadership positions on managerial gender …

We exploit a natural experiment based on the Italian promotion system for associate and full professor positions to … investigate gender differences in the willingness to enter competition. Using data on about 42,000 professors and controlling for … competition of about 4 percentage points. The determinants of this gap seem to be gender differences in risk-aversion and self …

sample of professionals is decomposed into several subsamples: men and women and within each gender a distinction is made …). Comparisons by gender and ethnicity can then be made. Characteristics (endowments) and wage structures of the four groups are …

members also has a similar impact. The effect of the chairmans gender is statistically insignificant. These findings are …

explain more of the variation in behavior for women, and account for about half of the gender performance gap in our …

Using a rich and comparable micro-data set, we analyse international differences in gender pay gaps in the private … gender differentials. However, the magnitude of their effects varies across countries. …

Using a rich and comparable micro-data set, we analyse international differences in gender pay gaps in the private … influencing female occupational distributions. We find significant impacts of those latter factors on gender differentials …