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51 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17679
The Disability Pay Gap Within and Across Firms
John Forth, Melanie K. Jones
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17674
The Long-Term Effects of Teachers' Gender Stereotypes on Labor Outcomes
Joan Jennifer Martinez
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17673
Unpacking the Child Penalty Using Personnel Data: How Promotion Practices Widen the Gender Pay Gap
Yoko Okuyama, Takeshi Murooka, Shintaro Yamaguchi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17621
One Cohort at a Time: A New Perspective on the Declining Gender Pay Gap
Jaime Arellano-Bover, Nicola Bianchi, Salvatore Lattanzio, Matteo Paradisi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17103
Gender Gaps across the Spectrum of Development: Local Talent and Firm Productivity
Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera, Virginia Minni, Víctor Quintas-Martínez
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17063
The Gender Pay Gap at the Early Stages of Academic Careers
Iga Magda, Jacek Bieliński, Marzena Feldy, Anna Knapińska
published online in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 27 January 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16613
Gender Pay Gaps across STEM Fields of Study
Tomasz Zając, Iga Magda, M. Bożykowski, Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak, M. Jasiński
published in: Studies in Higher Education, 2025, 50 (1), 126-139
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16323
Women in Management and the Gender Pay Gap
Virginia Sondergeld, Katharina Wrohlich
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16278
Closing the Gender Gap in Salary Increases: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Promoting Pay Equity
Jakob Alfitian, Marvin Deversi, Dirk Sliwka
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15817
The Ongoing Impact of Gender Pay Gap Transparency Legislation
Melanie K. Jones, Ezgi Kaya, Kerry L. Papps
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15805
Why Do the Earnings of Male and Female Graduates Diverge? The Role of Motherhood and Job Dynamics
Aedin Doris, Donal O'Neill, Olive Sweetman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15352
Gender Differences in STEM Persistence after Graduation
Judith M. Delaney, Paul J. Devereux
published in: Economica, 2022, 89 (356), 862-883.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15342
Organisational Gender Pay Gaps in the UK: What Happened Post-transparency?
Melanie K. Jones, Ezgi Kaya
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14724
The Gender Gap in Earnings Losses after Job Displacement
Hannah Illing, Johannes F. Schmieder, Simon Trenkle
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2024, 5, 2108–2147
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14551
Non-Base Compensation and the Gender Pay Gap
Boris Hirsch, Philipp Lentge
published in: Labour, 2022, 36 (3), 277-301
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14441
The Gender Pay Gap in Ireland from Austerity through Recovery
Karina Doorley, Ivan Privalko, Helen Russell, Dora Tuda
forthcoming in: Research in Labor Economics, 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14276
The Changing Distribution of the Male Ethnic Wage Gap in Great Britain
Ken Clark, Steve Nolan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14177
The Gender Pay Gap in UK Medicine
Melanie K. Jones, Ezgi Kaya
published as 'The gender pay gap in medicine: evidence from Britain' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2024, 76 (4), 1033 - 1051
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14128
The Gender Pay Gap Revisited with Big Data: Do Methodological Choices Matter?
Anthony Strittmatter, Conny Wunsch
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13856
Gender Wage Gap and Firm Market Power: Evidence from Chile
Rafael Sánchez, Javier Finot, Mauricio G. Villena
published in: Applied Economics, 2021, 54 (18), 2109–2121.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13635
Pay Transparency Initiative and Gender Pay Gap: Evidence from Research-Intensive Universities in the UK
Danula K. Gamage, Georgios Kavetsos, Sushanta Mallick, Almudena Sevilla
published in: BJIR, 2024, 62 (2), 293-318
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13576
Do Unions and Works Councils Really Dampen the Gender Pay Gap? Discordant Evidence from Germany
Michael Oberfichtner, Claus Schnabel, Marina Töpfer
published in: Economics Letters, 2020, 196, 109509
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13517
Overconfidence and Gender Differences in Wage Expectations
Stephanie Briel, Aderonke Osikominu, Gregor Pfeifer, Mirjam Reutter, Sascha Satlukal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13482
Robots and the Gender Pay Gap in Europe
Cevat Giray Aksoy, Berkay Özcan, Julia Philipp
revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 134, 103693
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13318
The Gender Pay Gap: What Can We Learn from Northern Ireland?
Melanie K. Jones, Ezgi Kaya
published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2022, 74 (1), 94–114
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12211
Gender Equality and Positive Action: Evidence from UK Universities
Danula K. Gamage, Almudena Sevilla
published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2019, 109, 105–109
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11822
Can Economic Pressure Overcome Social Norms? The Case of Female Labor Force Participation
Ana Rute Cardoso, Louis-Philippe Morin
published online as 'War-driven permanent emigration, sex ratios, and female labor force participation' in: Journal of Human Resources, October 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11341
The Impact of Life-Course Developments on Pensions in the NDC Systems in Poland, Italy and Sweden and Point System in Germany
Agnieszka Chłoń-Domińczak, Marek Góra, Irena E. Kotowska, Iga Magda, Anna Ruzik-Sierdzińska, Pawel Strzelecki
published as 'The Impact of Lifetime Events on Pensions: Nonfinancial Defined Contribution Schemes in Poland, Italy, and Sweden, and the Point Scheme in Germany' in: Progress and Challenges of Nonfinancial Defined Contribution Pension Schemes: Volume 2. Addressing Gender, Administration, and Communication, World Bank, 2019, 55 -85
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10974
The Dynamics of Gender Earnings Differentials: Evidence from Establishment Data
Erling Barth, Sari Pekkala Kerr, Claudia Olivetti
published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 134, 103713
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10829
Top Earnings Inequality and the Gender Pay Gap: Canada, Sweden and the United Kingdom
Nicole M. Fortin, Brian Bell, Michael Johannes Böhm
published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 47, 107 - 123
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10789
The Labor Market Gender Gap in Denmark: Sorting Out the Past 30 Years
Yana Gallen, Rune V. Lesner, Rune Majlund Vejlin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10788
Women in the Workplace and Management Practices: Theory and Evidence
Takao Kato, Naomi Kodama
published in: Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys and Saul D. Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women, New York: OUP, 2018
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10713
Career Interruptions and Current Earnings: The Role of Interruption Type, Compensation Component, and Gender
Benedikt Gerst, Christian Grund
published in: International Journal of Manpower 2019, 40 , 850–878
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10673
Is the Gender Pay Gap in the US Just the Result of Gender Segregation at Work?
Katie Meara, Francesco Pastore, Allan Webster
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10558
The Implicit Costs of Motherhood over the Lifecycle: Cross-Cohort Evidence from Administrative Longitudinal Data
Christian Neumeier, Todd A. Sorensen, Douglas A. Webber
published as 'The Implicit Costs of Motherhood over the Lifecycle: Cross-Cohort Evidence from Administrative Longitudinal Data' in: Southern Economic Journal, 2018, 84 (3), 716-733
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10453
Workplaces, Low Pay and the Gender Earnings Gap in Britain
Tim Butcher, Karen A. Mumford, Peter N. Smith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9656
The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations
Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn
published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2017, 55(3), 789-865
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8650
Do Women Earn Less Even as Social Entrepreneurs?
Saul Estrin, Ute Stephan, Suncica Vujic
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8414
The Sources of the Gender Gap in Economics Enrolment
Mirco Tonin, Jackline Wahba
published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2015, 61 (1), 72-94
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8317
The Levelling Effect of Product Market Competition on Gender Wage Discrimination
Boris Hirsch, Michael Oberfichtner, Claus Schnabel
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 3:19
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7959
Social Attitudes on Gender Equality and Firms' Discriminatory Pay-Setting
Simon Janssen, Simone N. Tuor Sartore, Uschi Backes-Gellner
published as 'Discriminatory Social Attitudes and Varying Gender Pay Gaps within Firms'. in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2016, 96 (1), 253 - 279
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6568
Occupational Sex Segregation and Management-Level Wages in Germany: What Role Does Firm Size Play?
Anne Busch, Elke Holst
shorter German version published in: Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 2013, 42 (4), 315-336
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6435
What Explains the Gender Earnings Gap in Self-Employment? A Decomposition Analysis with German Data
Daniel S. J. Lechmann, Claus Schnabel
published as 'Why is there a gender earnings gap in self-employment? A decomposition analysis with German data' in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2012, 1 (6)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5448
Gender-Specific Occupational Segregation, Glass Ceiling Effects, and Earnings in Managerial Positions: Results of a Fixed Effects Model
Anne Busch, Elke Holst
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5154
Women Move Differently: Job Separations and Gender
Boris Hirsch, Claus Schnabel
published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2012, 33 (4), 417-442
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4231
Is There a Gap in the Gap? Regional Differences in the Gender Pay Gap
Boris Hirsch, Marion König, Joachim Möller
published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2013, 60 (4), 412-439
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3978
Gender Pay Gap and Quantile Regression in European Families
Catia Nicodemo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2419
The Part-Time Pay Penalty for Women in Britain
Alan Manning, Barbara Petrongolo
published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (526), F28-F51
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2303
Female Managers and their Wages in Central Europe
Štepán Jurajda, Teodora Paligorova
published as "Czech Female Managers and their Wages" in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (3), 342-351
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2176
The U.S. Gender Pay Gap in the 1990s: Slowing Convergence
Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2006, 60 (1), 45-66
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1373
Is There a Glass Ceiling over Europe? Exploring the Gender Pay Gap across the Wages Distribution
Wiji Arulampalam, Alison L. Booth, Mark L. Bryan
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (2), 163-186
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