In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this … returns and focus especially on those incorporating pyschological factors as an explanation of the gender gap. Research areas … differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps …

-based discrimination in federally funded educational programs. The data paint a picture of considerable progress but also persistent … inequities. We then go on to consider possible explanations for the continuing gender differences and some of the empirical …

This study experimentally investigates gender quotas in light of peer review. We investigate competitions with and … without gender quotas and a peer review process that allows for sabotage. Our findings show that the possibility of peer … sabotage renders the gender quota ineffective in encouraging women to enter tournaments and reversing gender pay gaps. Moreover …

toward competition. Gender differences in risk aversion, however, seem to play a smaller and less robust role. We conclude by …Laboratory studies have documented that women often respond less favorably to competition than men. Conditional on … competition. This means that few women enter and win competitions. We review studies that examine the robustness of these …

Women are less willing than men to compete against others. This gender gap can partially explain the differences … striving towards gender equality, this opens up new possibilities for institutionalizing competitive pressure. …

We study the impact of gender quotas on the acquisition of human capital. We assume that individuals' formation of … gender-specific quotas. In the absence of quotas, women consider their chances of getting top positions to be lower than men …. Gender quotas discourage men who are less efficient in forming human capital, and encourage women who are more efficient in …

discrimination or implicit gender bias. …I hire 2,700 workers for a transcription job, randomly assigning the gender of their (fictitious) manager and provision …

Addressing population ageing requires a rise in the activity rates of older workers. In this study, a field experiment … for the period 2013-2015 in the UK, suggests that age discrimination persists at alarming levels. It shows that when two … constraints for blue-collar jobs than white-collar/pink-collar jobs, and that women face greater age discrimination than men …