We analyze the impact of overconfidence on gender differences in wage expectations using elicited beliefs of German … counterparts. Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions show that a substantial part (7.6%) of the gender gap in wage expectations can be … overconfidence on the gender gap is particularly strong at the bottom and top of the wage expectation distribution, suggesting that …

visible and non-visible characteristics, i.e., age, gender, foreign origin, or scholastic achievement. Externalities of …

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

In Austria, a gender pay transparency law was introduced in 2011, requiring companies with more than 1,000 employees to …. We estimate the impact of the law on men's wages, women's wages, and the gender pay gap using administrative data. The … results from a regression discontinuity design suggest that the wage transparency law did not change wages or the gender wage …

for formal-informal wage gap within gender groups, the semi-parametric estimates suggest that the observed formal …

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 …