In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this … returns and focus especially on those incorporating pyschological factors as an explanation of the gender gap. Research areas … differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps …

toward competition. Gender differences in risk aversion, however, seem to play a smaller and less robust role. We conclude by …Laboratory studies have documented that women often respond less favorably to competition than men. Conditional on … competition. This means that few women enter and win competitions. We review studies that examine the robustness of these …

with the Eurobarometer measure of perceived overall gender discrimination. Our findings suggest that family leave policies …There are considerable differences in gender unemployment gaps across the EU. We use labor force survey data on 21 … countries to perform a series of data decompositions and show that the cross-country variation in gender unemployment gaps is …

In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this … returns and focus especially on those incorporating pyschological factors as an explanation of the gender gap. Research areas … differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps. -- Glass ceiling ; experimental economics ; personality …