In this paper, I assess the extent to which the gender gap in physician earnings may be driven by physicians …' preference for working with specialists of the same gender. By analyzing administrative data on 100 million Medicare patient … referrals, I provide robust evidence that doctors refer more to specialists of their same gender, a tendency known as homophily …

die Allokation von Ressourcen. Anhand dreier Thesen wird die Notwendigkeit einer Gender-Perspektive (soziale Konstruktion … von Geschlecht) in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften bei Analysen zum Erwerbsangebot - insbesondere dem der Frauen … neoclassical economics (rational choice approach), (2) implicit rules of behavior generated by gender roles and gender stereo …

the She-recession can be however traced back to the persistence of gender asymmetries both intra-household and extra …-household in the labour market, a phenomenon known as feminization. This paper aims at measuring and explaining the gender …

This paper uses cross-country data to examine the long-term effect of trade openness on the gender gaps in wages …, education, political empowerment and health. Key findings are: trade openness since 1970 reduced the gender gaps in wages and … openness on the gender wage gap remained observable in later years (1980, 1990 and 2000), although it decreased in degree over …

relevance to both the institutional framework and our applied gender focus. We find that when nations exhibit features in line … terms compared to "liberal market economies." The results add valuable insight to the limited gender literature within the …

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. …

competition resulting from globalization in the 1980s forced employers to reduce costly discrimination against women. The … empirical strategy exploits differences in market structure across industries to identify the impact of trade on the gender wage … from increased trade should lead to a reduction in the gender wage gap. We compare the change in the residual gender wage …