issues. Our analysis shows that even though the gender wage gap is shrinking, discrimination is not. …

this background, we empirically investigate gender-role attitudes in reunified Germany. Our results show that East Germans … scenario of partial policy convergence, we also find evidence that the gap between East and West German gender role attitudes … the notion of social identity. -- political regimes ; gender role attitudes …

, overeducation does not matter for the gender pay gap. By contrast, women's fewer years of required education reasonably do …Germany's occupational and sectoral change towards a knowledge-based economy calls for high returns to education … differently and whether this might answer for part of the gender pay gap. We decompose total year of schooling in years of over …

, overeducation does not matter for the gender pay gap. By contrast, women' fewer years of required education reasonably do, answering …Germany's occupational and sectoral change towards a knowledge-based economy calls for high returns to education … differently and whether this might answer for part of the gender pay gap. We decompose total year of schooling in years of over …

formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … different gender identity prescriptions of family breadwinning. We use data for three periods between 1984 and 2016 from the … since reunification, converging to the more gender-egalitarian East Germany. Our work emphasizes the view that political and …

whether the gender gap in risk attitudes is shaped by the social environment. We address this question by examining risk … more equal gender roles than West Germans. Thus, if the gender gap reflects socially constructed norms, it should be … prediction. Specifically with respect to career and financial matters, the gender gap in risk tolerance is smaller among East …

formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … different gender identity prescriptions of family breadwinning. We use data for three periods between 1984 and 2016 from the … since reunification, converging to the more gender-egalitarian East Germany. Our work emphasizes the view that political and …

, overeducation does not matter for the gender pay gap. By contrast, women's fewer years of required education reasonably do …Germany's occupational and sectoral change towards a knowledge-based economy calls for high returns to education … differently and whether this might answer for part of the gender pay gap. We decompose total year of schooling in years of over …

We compare the importance of occupational gender segregation for the gender wage gap in East and West Germany in 1995 … of occupational segregation, has a gender wage gap on the order of one fifth of the West German gap. Segregation is not …