history, one norm widely adhered to in most developed nations has been for men to be the primary breadwinner within mixed-gender … households. As women have entered the labor market in greater numbers and gender wage differentials have declined, female … differences in the ease of access to superior partnership alternatives for women who out-earn their partners. While gender …

import competition are concentrated on women, and gender earnings inequality increases. The paper establishes the market …−if the worker is a woman. The female biological clock−low fertility beyond the early forties−is central to this gender …

Australia it remains around 17%. Interestingly, the gender pay gap is relatively small for the young but increases as men and … explain these wage patterns? And what can governments do to speed up wage convergence to close the gender pay gap? Clearly …, the gender pay gap continues to be an important policy issue. …

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

This chapter provides a bird's eye view of the literature on gender discrimination. The presentation of studies is … grouped into five parts. Part 1 presents evidence of gender discrimination measured via various dimensions in various … countries and contexts. Part 2 discusses in detail the gender wage gap - one of the most important measures of gender …

This study on the economics of gender differences examines whether the mining industry acts as a blessing or curse for …

formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … different gender identity prescriptions of family breadwinning. We use data for three periods between 1984 and 2016 from the … since reunification, converging to the more gender-egalitarian East Germany. Our work emphasizes the view that political and …

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

This article reports the results of a replication of Bobbitt-Zeher’s 2007 article “The Gender Income Gap and the Role …Dieser Beitrag berichtet die Ergebnisse einer Replikation von Bobbitt-Zehers 2007 erschienenem Aufsatz „The Gender …

We examine the impact of sibling gender composition on women's adult earnings. Using data from Add Health, we find that …