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. … estimates suggest that male top-earners are the main beneficiaries, whereas women, irrespective of their earnings, appear to be …

Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is … analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …. If control variables are added, estimates are split by gender and different effects of over- and underweight people are …

to play in achieving a narrowing of the gender union wage gap. Further, given the presence of noticeable gender …

I examine the incidence and determinants of the gender income gap in Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Serbia, Tajikistan … substantively large gender income gap (favoring males) in all six countries; (2) some evidence of a gender-related glass ceiling in … gap is left unexplained. In sum, these results are consistent with the presence of income discrimination towards females …

Although male employees are increasingly making use of parental leave, gender differences in both usage and duration of … parental leave are still prevalent. In this contribution, we explore the role of gender for the relation between the incidence …/duration of parental leave and earnings after returning to a job. We use data on middle managers in the German chemical industry …

essentially among wage earners. Returns to experience mitigate the gender earnings gap at the mean, and 10th and 50th percentiles …, resolve the index number problem of the standard decomposition, and examine earnings differentials across the unconditional … earnings distribution. We find compelling evidence of a sticky floor phenomenon in the informal labour market manifested …

2016, there was an average gender pay gap of 30 percent in gross hourly earnings. If gender-specific differences in … experience explains the gender pay gap to almost a quarter according to the present study based on data from the Socio …-Economic Panel (Sozio-ökonomisches Panel, SOEP). In order to reduce the gender pay gap, measures are needed to counteract the large …

The limited diffusion of salary information has implications for labor markets, such as wage discrimination policies … discuss implications for pay transparency policies and the gender wage gap …

, considering both within-gender and cross-gender dynamics. Since the average productivity of both individuals and their peers is … reveal that within-gender peer effects have approximately twice the influence of cross-gender peer effects on wages for both … characterized by greater gender equality. …

information on employers, to measure the relative bargaining power of men and women and assess the impact of the gender gap in … bargaining strength on the male-female wage gap. We show that a model with additive fixed effects for workers and gender … perform a simple decomposition by assigning the firm-specific wage premiums for one gender to the other. Second, we relate the …