opposite gender human capital and the analysis of its effect on the earning profiles of unique human capital holders. The … overwhelming research aim is to better understand the possible reasons behind gender wage disparities, focusing on the unique … features of male and female human capital and their returns. When assessing the gender pay disparities, variation of human …

We analyze the impact of overconfidence on gender differences in wage expectations using elicited beliefs of German … counterparts. Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions show that a substantial part (7.6%) of the gender gap in wage expectations can be … overconfidence on the gender gap is particularly strong at the bottom and top of the wage expectation distribution, suggesting that …

considerable Gender Pay Gap exists even within the same occupational position. In this paper, we aim at understanding the reasons … earnings growth for men and women. Using administrative data, we are the first to investigate potential gender gaps in earnings … increase due to a promotion in Germany. Moreover, we are the first to analyze differences in the gender gap across promotions …

We study how firm premia influence the gender wage gap for 21 European countries over 12 years. We use a quadrennial … harmonized matched employer-employee data set to estimate gender-specific firm premia. Subsequently, we decompose the firm … the subgroups by age and gender reveals heterogeneity in the development of the components. We pay particular attention to …

considerably larger shares of the gender wage gap than does the standard decomposition. …