Closing the Gender Pay Gap in the EU

One of the most common inserts in EU policy documents is a statement that efforts should be made to close the gender pay gap. The problem is that the EU appears to have little clue how to bring that about and ignores the fact that much of its policy advice may have the opposite effect. This situation arises in my view from five separate but sometimes interrelated characteristics of its policy approach.

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Intereconomics: Archive http://archive.intereconomics.eu/years/

ESO: Background information: Commission outlines remaining key challenges on gender equality http://www.europeansources.info/record/press-release-commission-outlines-remaining-key-challenges-on-gender-equality/

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