degrees with the highest average earnings and underestimates the returns to degrees with the lowest average earnings. Second …, we decompose the impacts on earnings into effects on wage rates and effects on hours. For most degrees, the earnings …

Research on the gender earnings divide so far mostly focuses on the gender gap in hourly wages which, due to its … snapshot nature, is inappropriate to capture the biographical dimension of gendered pay. With the 'gender lifetime earnings gap …, women accumulated 49.8 % less earnings than men. Thus, the GLEG is more than twice as high as the current German gender pay …

Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is … analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …. If control variables are added, estimates are split by gender and different effects of over- and underweight people are …

earnings distribution and by gender. Findings, based on unique matched employer-employee data relative to the Belgian … the gender wage gap, especially at the top of the earnings' distribution. … estimates suggest that male top-earners are the main beneficiaries, whereas women, irrespective of their earnings, appear to be …

and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their …

The limited diffusion of salary information has implications for labor markets, such as wage discrimination policies … discuss implications for pay transparency policies and the gender wage gap …

, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic … performance and their labor market income. We exploit the within-school, cohort-by-cohort variation in the gender composition of … not find significant effects of the high school class gender composition on women. Our results are consistent with the …

Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is … analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …. If control variables are added, estimates are split by gender and different effects of over- and underweight people are …

Although male employees are increasingly making use of parental leave, gender differences in both usage and duration of … parental leave are still prevalent. In this contribution, we explore the role of gender for the relation between the incidence …/duration of parental leave and earnings after returning to a job. We use data on middle managers in the German chemical industry …

Studies from countries with laws against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation suggest that gay and lesbian …