“Equal pay for equal work” is one of the backbone principles Responsible Leadership. It also deeply incorporated in legislation, mostly developed countries. In recent decades, gender gap has been put forward as a general indicator equality by policy makers and researches alike. Yet, research outcomes are disturbingly unsettled comparison to bold political proclamations that often based on simpl...

This paper exploits data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to re-examine the gender wage gap in Germany on the basis of inequalityadjusted measures of wage differentials which fully account for gender differences in pay distributions. The inequality-adjusted gender pay gap measures are significantly larger than suggested by standard indicators, especially in East Germany. Women appear...

I use data from the 1993 National Survey of College Graduates and appended 1990 Census on about 11,000 men and women college graduates (8400 with bachelor’s degrees only, and 2800 with graduate degrees) who earned degrees in a 5-year period (1984–1988), to address questions regarding the link between college major and early-career gender pay differentials. I look at within-major gender pay diff...

I examine how kinship systems affect gender differences in willingness to compete among individuals from matrilineal and patrilineal societies in Central Africa. These individuals share a common urban environment today, and they are from nearby areas along the border of the matrilineal belt. Individuals participated in a lab experiment in which they completed a task under piece rate pay, tourna...

We study whether the gender performance gap is affected by the gender composition of teams. A real-effort experiment is employed with wages based either on the team’s performance, or on the outcome of a competition between teams. We find that, relative to a single-sex environment, gender diversity increases the gender performance gap with team pay whereas it decreases the gap with team competit...