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 …

-based discrimination in federally funded educational programs. The data paint a picture of considerable progress but also persistent … inequities. We then go on to consider possible explanations for the continuing gender differences and some of the empirical …

This study experimentally investigates gender quotas in light of peer review. We investigate competitions with and … without gender quotas and a peer review process that allows for sabotage. Our findings show that the possibility of peer … sabotage renders the gender quota ineffective in encouraging women to enter tournaments and reversing gender pay gaps. Moreover …

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 …

Women are less willing than men to compete against others. This gender gap can partially explain the differences … striving towards gender equality, this opens up new possibilities for institutionalizing competitive pressure. …

discrimination or implicit gender bias. …I hire 2,700 workers for a transcription job, randomly assigning the gender of their (fictitious) manager and provision …

In this article we apply a two stage approach in order to investigate whether a stronger sex discrimination exists the …

In this article we apply a two stage approach in order to investigate whether a stronger sex discrimination exists the …