market compensates higher wage risk with higher wages, this study investigates whether the gender gap in wage expectations … market and that this partly translates into the actual gender wage gap through effects on educational choice and the … formation of reservation wages. Building on the theoretical reasoning of compensating differentials proposing that the labor …

, due to the lack of studies of this phenomenon in the latter sector. We also analyse its effect on wages and its role in … creating a gender wage gap in the returns to a set of professional and personal characteristics. The heterogeneity in the … sector motivates interest in this comparative research between industry and services, which includes a gender perspective …

Connections of personality and career success factors like obtained wages are well documented. Important cognitive wage … obtained, expected, and accepted wages. We empirically test this framework using the German PASS survey data (N = 5.636) of … effects of extraversion and neuroticism on obtained wages. Extending this causal chain to expected and accepted wages, we …

Inaccurate expectations of future wages are found in many contexts. Yet, existing studies overwhelmingly refer to high …

. Individuals also revise their expectations about outside offers upward, anchoring their beliefs to Foxconn's announced wages. They …

. This suggests that firms and workers bargain frequently over wages, even in the absence of an outside job offer. Moreover … Foxconn's publicly announced wages. Investigating whether individuals act on their updated beliefs, I find evidence that …

We estimate gender differences in elicited wage expectations among German University students applying for STEM and non …-STEM fields. Descriptively, women expect to earn less than men and also have lower expectations about wages of average graduates … across different fields. Using a two-step estimation procedure accounting for self-selection, we find that the gender gap in …