; earnings ; gender pay gap ; Germany …

Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in … background, working time flexibility and career aspirations do not seem to contribute much to the gender earnings gap, suggesting … human capital endowments account for another 13 percent of the gap but segregation does not contribute to the gender …

This paper analyzes gender differences in the investment activity of German small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs …

This paper provides the first evidence on gender differences in investment financing, credit application and credit … denial rates in Germany. The empirical analysis is carried out on a sample of firms drawn from the KfW Mittelstandspanel, a … probability that they apply for credit is on average lower. Yet, this gender difference in the probability of credit application …

This paper analyzes the gender wage gap across the wage distribution using 2010 data from the German statistical agency …. I investigate East and West Germany and the public sector separately to account for potential heterogeneities in wage … men and women in distributions conditional and unconditional on covariates. The results indicate increasing gender wage …