This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...

This paper estimates and interprets returns to education for three sub-sectors of labour market by gender in Pakistan, using the most recent data set of Pakistan Social and Living Standards Measurement (PSLM) Survey 2004-05. The results show two distinctive features of Pakistani education, the...

We examine how multitasking affects performance and check whether women are indeed better at multitasking. Subjects in our experiment perform two different tasks according to three treatments: one where they perform the tasks sequentially, one where they are forced to multitask, and one where...

This paper raises the problem of the optimal allocation of talent in a gendered perspective. It analyses the transition from education to labor market in Italy, and the way in which gender differences emerge early in the labor market career. Our data establish higher grades for females in both...

Very little is known about gender wage disparities in Kosovo and, to date, nothing is known about how such wage disparities evolve over time, particularly during the first few years spent by young workers in the labor market. More generally, not much is known about gender wage gaps in early...

This paper focuses on gender differences in the role played by locus of control within a model that predicts outcomes for men and women at two opposite poles of the labour market: high level managerial / leadership positions and unemployment. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel,...

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper analyzes the relationship between training and job satisfaction focusing in particular on gender differences. Controlling for a variety of socio-demographic, job and firm characteristics, we find a difference between males and...

Die Entlohnung von Frauen in abhängigen Beschäftigungen blieb in Deutschland auch im Jahr 2006 deutlich hinter der der Männer zurück. Für den Durchschnitt der Vollzeitbeschäftigen zeigt sich beim Bruttomonatsverdienst eine Lücke von 18 Prozent. Schätzungen unter Berücksichtigung von...

Der Unterschied im Bruttostundenverdienst zwischen Frauen und Männern - der sogenannte Gender Pay Gap - verharrt unter Angestellten seit Jahren bei etwa 30 Prozent. Für den Verdienstunterschied spielen offenbar auch regionale Faktoren eine wichtige Rolle. Der Gender Pay Gap ist in ländlichen...

Der Anteil von Frauen in Führungspositionen der Privatwirtschaft war auch im Jahr 2007 mit 27 Prozent unterdurchschnittlich. Er erreichte nach Angaben des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) wieder das Niveau von vor fünf Jahren. Während weibliche Führungskräfte in hoch qualifizierten...