We analyze the impact of an increase in compulsory schooling policy on the gender gap in intergenerational educational … persistence using the Turkish Adult Education Survey (2012). Prior to the reform there is a gender gap in the association of … points, respectively. The gender gap in intergenerational education transmission has decreased by 8 percentage points in the …

This paper analyzes the gender wage gap across the wage distribution using 2010 data from the German statistical agency … men and women in distributions conditional and unconditional on covariates. The results indicate increasing gender wage …

This paper investigates whether personality traits can explain glass ceilings (increasing gender wage gaps across the … up to 14.5% of the overall gender wage gap. However, controlling for personality traits does not lead to a significant …

by a gender-biased lender, depending on the borrower's creditworthiness and the intensity of the lender's bias. The … empirical analysis detects no gender bias in loan denial, but uncovers disparate treatment with regard to credit conditions. In … particular, we find a “glass ceiling” effect. The gender gap in loan size increases disproportionately with respect to the scale …

There is a modest but growing empirical body of evidence on the influence of the managers’ gender on the wages of their … male and female subordinates. Most of these studies, however, suffer from a very raw approximation of the managers’ gender … by the share of women in charge, and often lack many important gender-specific personal characteristics, such as non …

We weave together care-giving, gender, and migration. We hypothesize that daughters who are mothers have a stronger …

endowments and learning productivity, although the largest part remains unexplained. Countries' general level of gender (in …

We develop a two sector competitive equilibrium model that rationalizes the gender pay gap by the coexistence of two … on their physical endowments. We prove the existence of a competitive equilibrium where the gender pay gap arises. The … an ineffective way to reduce the gender pay gap …

Using data from 1998, we show that the gender log wage gap in Sweden increases throughout the wage distribution and … pattern either for the log wage gap between immigrants and non-immigrants in the Swedish labor market or for the gender gap in … the U.S. labor market. Our findings suggest that a gender-specific mechanism in the Swedish labor market hinders women …