Averkamp, Dorothée; Bredemeier, Christian; Jüßen, Falko - 2020
We show that parts of the unexplained wage gap in standard Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions result from the neglect of the role played by the family for individual wages. We present a simple model of dual-earner households facing a trade-off regarding whose career to promote and show analytically...
