Project 820798; Programma Rights, Equality and Citizenship (REC) of the European Commission ‘Mind the Gap in Pensions: Simulation and knowledge dissemination on gender gaps, their underlying causes, and how they could be reduced’/Psychological Work Packag KU Leuven
In the EU, women’s pensions are on average lower than men’s. This Gender Pension Gap (GPG) has several causes, including the fact that women more often than men do not have a paid job, that women on average work fewer hours on the paid jobs that they have, and that women often receive lower wages. However, the relation between differences in earnings and labour market participation rates on the one hand and the GPG on the other hand is ...