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 …

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 …

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

graduates in Germany, we study gender differences in the decision to stay at university as a postdoctoral researcher and in the … intention to become a professor. We find that gender gaps related to aiming for a professorship can be fully explained by … observable characteristics other than gender. On the contrary, even after adding controls for an array of characteristics …