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Research

January 7, 2022

Minimum wage reduced the gender wage gap in Germany

Largest effect among low-paid workers, but women in higher wage groups benefit as well

  • gender wage gap
  • Germany
  • minimum wage
  • regional bite
  • Linda Wittbrodt
  • Marco Caliendo
Research

January 17, 2018

What drives the gender pay gap?

The earnings differential between men and women is a recurring topic in academic research and policy debates. While the gender […]

  • age-earnings profile
  • career
  • discrimination
  • gender pay gap
  • gender wage gap
  • household division of labor
  • part-time work
  • productivity
  • sorting
  • wage inequality
  • willingness to compete
  • Claudia Olivetti
  • Erling Barth
  • Isabelle Sin
  • Kai Liu
  • Richard Fabling
  • Sari Pekkala Kerr
  • Steven Stillman
OpinionResearch

March 17, 2017

The gender pay gap: Discrimination or structural differences?

Diskriminierung oder strukturelle Unterschiede?

  • competitiveness
  • equal pay
  • female leadership
  • gender
  • gender differences
  • gender gap
  • gender inequality
  • gender pay gap
  • gender wage gap
  • labor market
  • labor market policy
  • leadership
  • wages
  • women
  • Boris Hirsch
  • Mario Lackner
  • Mario Macis
  • Solomon W. Polachek
IZA News

May 15, 2016

IZA Prize goes to Claudia Goldin

The 2016 IZA Prize in Labor Economics goes to Claudia Goldin, the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University. […]

  • economic history
  • education
  • gender wage gap
  • Harvard
  • IZA Prize
  • labor market
  • women
Research

November 18, 2015

Sexual orientation related to preferences for competition

The gender wage gap is one of the most researched empirical facts in labor economics. But it is not only […]

  • behavior
  • competition
  • experiment
  • gay
  • gender wage gap
  • lesbian
  • preferences
  • sexual orientation
  • Erik Plug
  • Lydia Geijtenbeek
  • Thomas Buser
Videos

October 6, 2014

Solomon Polachek on equal pay and the gender wage gap

In a video interview, IZA Fellow Solomon Polachek (State University of New York at Binghamton) talks about equal pay and […]

  • child care
  • equal pay
  • equal pay legislation
  • gender discrimination
  • gender wage gap
  • lifetime work
  • marriage tax
  • policies
  • Solomon Polachek
Research

September 30, 2014

Where does the gender gap in economics enrolment arise?

Although women account for 57% of all students at UK universities, the share of female economics students is only about […]

  • cultural impact
  • economics enrolment
  • enrolment gap
  • gender gap
  • gender pay gap
  • gender wage gap
  • gender-equal societies
  • math
  • universities
  • Jackline Wahba
  • Mirco Tonin
Research

August 5, 2014

Do personality traits affect productivity? Evidence from the lab

Individual differences in cognitive abilities measures such as IQ cannot fully explain the wage variation across workers, nor the intergenerational […]

  • Big Five
  • conscientiousness
  • Five Factor Personality Model
  • gender wage gap
  • mental calculus
  • neuroticism
  • personality traits
  • productivity
  • social mobility
  • wages
  • Ana Nuevo-Chiquero
  • Maria Cubel
  • Marian Vidal-Fernández
  • Santiago Sanchez-Pages
Research

July 28, 2014

Female quotas in company boards: Norwegian evidence shows no trickle-down effect

Women still earn less than men, and are still under-represented in executive positions. In 2003, the Norwegian government passed a […]

  • female employment
  • female leadership
  • gender wage gap
  • labor market
  • Norway
  • quota
  • wage gap
  • women
  • Adriana Lleras-Muney
  • Marianne Bertrand
  • Nina Smith
  • Sandra E. Black
  • Sissel Jensen
Research

September 13, 2013

Men earn more because they negotiate better

Women have been found to do worse when it comes to negotiating their salaries: first, because they renegotiate less, and, […]

  • discrimination
  • gender pay gap
  • gender wage gap
  • Portugal
  • wage
  • wage bargaining
  • wage premium
  • Ana Rute Cardoso
  • David Card
  • Patrick Kline
Research

September 11, 2013

High testosterone, high wages?

Does the level of testosterone, which is associated with more aggressive and competitive behavior, explain why men earn more than […]

  • earnings
  • gender
  • gender wage gap
  • inequality
  • natural experiment
  • Netherlands
  • twins
  • Anne C. Gielen
  • Caitlin Knowles Myers
  • Jessica Holmes
Research

August 22, 2013

Men like child care at least as much as women do

In March of 2012, The New York Times (NYT) website ran the headline, “Do Women Like Child Care More than […]

  • child care
  • familiy economics
  • gender differences
  • gender pay gap
  • gender wage gap
  • happiness
  • home production
  • time use
  • Jean Kimmel
  • Rachel Connelly

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