The European Union has developed a complex strategy and policy coordination process to promote gender equality in all community policies through "gender mainstreaming". While every member country has to promote the policy objective of gender equality, the instruments implemented to that end may...

Policies to reduce the gender pay gap feature prominently on the political agenda and interventions in the labour market are frequently proposed, claiming a persistent wage gap. We examine the change of the gender wage gap in Austria between 2002 and 2007 with new data from administrative...

We provide evidence on the impact of globalisation on labour market outcomes analysing pay differences between foreign-acquired and domestically-owned firms. For this purpose, we use firm level data from 16 European countries over the time period 1999 to 2006. Applying propensity score matching...

Das Update des Führungskräfte-Monitors zeigt nach wie vor ein ernüchterndes Bild, was die Gleichstellung von Mann und Frau in Führungspositionen betrifft. So waren 27 Prozent der Führungskräfte in der Privatwirtschaft im Jahr 2008 Frauen. Damit ist der Anteil genauso hoch wie 2006. Im...