A comprehensive descriptive analysis of gender wage differences over a long time period is missing for West Germany … well as life-cycle and birth cohort effects, we go beyond conventional decomposition techniques of the average gender wage … gap. The paper provides some stylized facts of the level and dynamics of the gender wage gap from 1975-1995. The empirical …

males. Nevertheless, men still predominate at highly selective programs that lead to high-paying careers. The gender gap at … detailed administrative data from the centralized college entrance system, I study the impact of gender differences in … unassigned and in relative preferences for school attributes can explain much of the gender gap at the most elite programs. …

to recruit almost all French secondary and postsecondary teachers and professors. Comparisons of oral non gender …-blind tests with written gender-blind tests for about 100,000 individuals observed in 11 different fields over the period 2006 …