Gender peer effects are potentially important for optimally organizing schools and neighborhoods. In this paper, we … examine how the gender of classmates and neighbors affects a variety of high school outcomes and choice of university major … confounding unobserved characteristics of schools and neighborhoods that might be correlated with peer gender composition, we …

years, increasingly more European countries have introduced statutory gender quotas to combat this underrepresentation …. Other European countries have instead relied on voluntary gender diversity recommendations in the national corporate … governance codes. Statutory gender quotas are significantly more effective than recommendations, as a descriptive comparison of …

We analyse impacts of the rising labor force participation of women on the gender wage gap. We formulate and … occupations. Consistent with this we find a narrowing of the gender wage gap towards the upper end of the wage distribution and an … increase in the gender wage gap at the low end. Demand side trends favoured women and this attenuated the supply …

We analyse impacts of the rising labor force participation of women on the gender wage gap. We formulate and … occupations. Consistent with this we find a narrowing of the gender wage gap towards the upper end of the wage distribution and an … increase in the gender wage gap at the low end. Demand side trends favoured women and this attenuated the supply …

In this paper we discuss some strands of the recent literature on the evolution of gender gaps and their driving forces …. We will revisit key stylized facts about gender gaps in employment and wages in a few high-income countries. We then … discuss and build on one gender-neutral force behind the rise in female employment, namely the rise of the service economy …

Previous comparative research has uncovered considerable cross-country differences in occupational gender segregation …. There is, however, a lack of research on the role of educational systems in the creation of gender segregation and gendered … education–employment linkage in the transmission of horizontal gender segregation from education into the labour market …

market participation through gender lens. Results show that women’s education has a U-shaped relationship with paid work …

Whilst gender inequality has been falling in the developed world, child-related gender inequality in pay has stayed … effect and gender norms, willingness to take on risk for your career and priorities regarding job characteristics. There …

Public interest in the gender pay gap has risen significantly over the past years in Germany, but the size of the … gender pay gap has barely changed. A comparison across European countries shows that a lower female labor force participation … rate is associated with a smaller gender pay gap. The gender differences in the characteristics of the labor force, which …