The gender wage gap is a persistent labor market phenomenon. Most research focuses on the determinants of these wage … (labor supply) of the wage gap? We demonstrate how the gender gap in gross hourly wages shows up in the distribution of …-benefit system and other sources of household income. We present a methodological framework for deriving the gender wage gap in terms …

We study the impact of selection bias on estimates of the gender pay gap, focusing on whether the gender pay gap has … find robust evidence that, after controlling for selection, there were large declines in the raw and the unexplained gender … and actual labor market experience. However, we note that substantial gender wage gaps remain. In 2015, at the median, the …

To obtain a more complete understanding of the persisting gender earnings gap in Germany, this paper investigates both … the cross-sectional and biographical dimension of gender inequalities. Using an Oaxaca Blinder decomposition, we show that … the gender gap in annual earnings is largely driven by women’s lower work experience and intensive margin of labor supply …

We analyze the impact of women’s managerial representation on the gender pay gap among employees on the establishment … share of women in management significantly reduces the gender pay gap within the firm. An increase in the share of women in … first-level management e.g. from zero to above 33 percent decreases the adjusted gender pay gap from a baseline of 15 …

Using quantile regression methods, this paper analyses the gender wage gap across the wage distribution and over time …-corrected gender wage gap is much larger than the one observed in the data, which is mainly due to large positive selection of women …, however, neither the observed nor the selection-corrected gender wage gap has narrowed over time. …

We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working … in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is … - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to three percentage-points lower for hourly wages in female …

Germany has a large persistent Gender Pay Gap of 21%; although this gap is not constant across occupations. The … question arises why some occupations have large Gender Pay Gaps while others have only small gaps. Using data from the … uncover the relationship between occupational characteristics and the Gender Pay Gap. To do so, I apply a two-step approach …

Although there are a variety of studies on the gender pay gap, only a few relate to managerial positions. The present … differ only marginally in their human capital endowments. The Oaxaca/Blinder decomposition shows that the gender pay gap in … the gross monthly salary can hardly be explained using the human capital approach. Adding variables on gender …

The study analyses the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions in Germany based on data from the German … Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the years 2001-2008. It focuses in particular on gender segregation in the labor … inequality on earnings levels and gender wage differentials in management positions. Our paper is, to our knowledge, the first in …