differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps …In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this … lecture I briefly survey some recent studies aiming to explain why apparently identical women and men receive such different …

differences between men and women, can provide a plausible explanation. We conduct an experiment on a Dutch online survey panel to …It is an established fact that gay men earn less than other men and lesbian women earn more than other women. In this … explain sexual orientation differences in earnings, gay men would need to be less competitive than other men and lesbian women …

This paper investigates beliefs concerning the gender gap in salary negotiations (GGSN) in a sample of 4,300 women, 1 … information. The analysis of the competing mental models that women hold reveals that the likely mechanism is the perceived … suggests that they view negotiating women as facing worse consequences in the workplace than negotiating men. …

We show that choices in competitive behavior may entail a gender wage gap. In our experi ments, employees first choose … pie size the employee has generated, the remuneration scheme chosen, and the employee's gender. Employers then decide how … the pie will be split, as in a dictator game. Whereas employers do not discriminate by gender when tournaments are chosen …

We design an experiment to examine whether egalitarian preferences, and in particular, behindness aversion as well as … related to preference for favorable inequality, with significant gender differences in the impact of these distributional … characteristics to vary by gender, the pure gender effect is explained away. We find that gender gaps in distributional preferences …

competition aversion for generating gender wage gaps. Cross-subject design treatment and control experiments suggest that gender … each period. The gender wage gap contribution of gender differences in competition aversion compared with the contribution …Laboratory experiments involving a real effort task are conducted to examine the importance of gender differences in …

We show that choices in competitive behavior may entail a gender wage gap. In our experiments, employees first choose a … employee has generated, the remuneration scheme chosen, and the employee's gender. Employers then decide how the pie will be … split, as in a dictator game. Whereas employers do not discriminate by gender when tournaments are chosen, they take …

experiment with 755 employees at a multibillion-dollar corporation. We provide revealed-preference evidence that many employees … discuss implications for pay transparency policies and the gender wage gap …

This paper assesses gender differences in the effects of adverse conditions at labor-market entry in a developing … contrast, women from those same unlucky cohorts have higher employment rates and earnings. Our results are consistent with … women acting as secondary workers in downturns. We also find that women from unlucky cohorts control a larger share of …

congestion policy, spatial planning and transport infrastructure provision, but are also relevant to our understanding of gender … women's over a large range of wages. However, women's marginal willingness to pay more than doubles after the birth of a …