Examining the gender pay gap among financial planning professionals: A Blinder‐Oaxaca decomposition

The Gender Pay Gap

Performance-Support Bias and the Gender Pay Gap among Stockbrokers

Organizational mechanisms, and their contexts, leading to gender inequality among stockbrokers in two large brokerages are analyzed. Inequality is the result of gender differences in sales, as both firms use performancebased pay, paying entirely by commissions. This paper develops and tests whether performance-support bias, whereby women receive inferior sales support and sales assignments, cau...

Examining the gender wealth gap

Competitiveness and the gender gap among young business professionals

Although the gender gap in earnings has been decreasing over time, it still persists in many professions such as business. Gender differences in competitiveness have been proposed as an important explanation for the remaining earnings differential. Using a laboratory experiment to measure competitiveness, this paper investigates whether this measure explains the gender gap in earnings in a samp...

Examining the gender wealth gap in Germany

Welfare-oriented analyses of economic outcome measures such as income and wealth in general rest on the assumption of pooling and equal sharing of resources by all members of a given household. Examining the distribution of income and wealth within the household context is almost always hampered by the lack of individual level data. Based on unique individual level wealth data from the German S...