Dear colleagues, We hereby invite you to join our next Economics of Inequality Research Seminar<https://www.wu.ac.at/en/ineq/outreach/ineq-research-seminar> at WU Vienna. Thijs Bol<thijsbol.com> (University of Amsterdam) will present the paper Gender inequality in bonus compensation. Date and Time: Monday, March 9; 3.00 p.m. Location: WU Vienna, D4.0.136<https://campus.wu.ac.at/?q=D4.0.136>. Abstract Gender wage inequality is persistent across contexts and time, with women earning less than men, even when controlling for factors such as job role, experience, and performance metrics. Recent research has highlighted that gender wage inequality does not just arise from differences in base wages, but also from additional compensation. In this article we contribute to this literature by studying gender wage inequality in a specific form of performance pay: bonus compensations, that are handed out mostly at the end of the calendar year and are based on workers’ (perceived) contributions to firms. While studies have shown that there are cross-sectional differences in the extent to which men and women receive bonuses, we do not know where these differences come from: is there within-firm inequality in the extent to which men and women receive bonuses, or do women sort into firms where bonuses are lower (or less often handed out)? We leverage unique longitudinal data from the Dutch population registers (2013-2023) that allow for tracking all workers monthly and contain administrative information on all wages and bonus payments without censoring. Our preliminary results show large gender inequality in bonus payments, even among workers with similar wages in the same firm. This inequality in bonus compensation is driven by both driven by within- and between-firm (i.e., sorting) processes. Please register your participation here<https://www.wu.ac.at/en/ineq/outreach/ineq-research-seminar/registration-bol>. Best regards, Franziska Disslbacher ---- Franziska Disslbacher, PhD Assistant Professor Institute for Spatial & Social-Ecological Transformations & Research Institute Economics of Inequality WU, Vienna University of Economics and Business Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Vienna, Austria LSE International Inequalities Institute – Research Fellow | Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality CUNY | SOEP / DIW – Associated Researcher World Inequality Lab PSE– Research Fellow +43 1 313 36 6669 franziska.disslbacher@wu.ac.at<mailto:franziska.disslbacher@wu.ac.at> franziskadisslbacher.com<http://franziskadisslbacher.com>