This paper estimates the gender-specific effects of birthweight on a variety of schooling and labor market outcomes. A …

The gender wage gap varies across countries. For example, among OECD nations women in Australia, Belgium, Italy and … important in gender wage gap studies that employ individual data. This paper explicitly concentrates on labor market … institutions that are related to female lifetime work that affect the gender wage gap across countries. Using ISSP (International …

Australia it remains around 17%. Interestingly, the gender pay gap is relatively small for the young but increases as men and … explain these wage patterns? And what can governments do to speed up wage convergence to close the gender pay gap? Clearly …, the gender pay gap continues to be an important policy issue. …

-timers, part-time working women are as likely to receive training as full-time working women. Although we cannot rule out gender …-working time specific monopsony power, we speculate that the gender-specific effect of working hours on training has to do with … gender-specific stereotyping. In the Netherlands, for women it is common to work part-time. More than half of the prime age …

2014 to analyze the effects of high performing (HP) male or female peers on individual academic performance, according to … the gender of the student. The identification strategy is based on quasi-random variation in the exposure to HP peers … particular with peers of the same gender. Moreover, there is evidence that the exposure to HP males can be even negative …