gender of the job loser. Finally, we document that parenthood magnifies the gender gap sharply: while fathers of young …

gender of the job loser. Finally, we document that parenthood magnifies the gender gap sharply: while fathers of young …

Public interest in the gender pay gap has risen significantly over the past years in Germany, but the size of the … gender pay gap has barely changed. A comparison across European countries shows that a lower female labor force participation … rate is associated with a smaller gender pay gap. The gender differences in the characteristics of the labor force, which …

Research on the gender earnings divide so far mostly focuses on the gender gap in hourly wages which, due to its … snapshot nature, is inappropriate to capture the biographical dimension of gendered pay. With the 'gender lifetime earnings gap …, women accumulated 49.8 % less earnings than men. Thus, the GLEG is more than twice as high as the current German gender pay …

contribute to the gender wage gap, and how institutional elements - especially family policies - affect this relationship. Our … analysis is based on a decomposition that reveals what portion of the gender wage gap may be attributed to: (1) the motherhood … wage penalty, (2) the fatherhood wage premium, and (3) the gender wage gap among childless individuals. Our findings …

A comprehensive descriptive analysis of gender wage differences over a long time period is missing for West Germany … well as life-cycle and birth cohort effects, we go beyond conventional decomposition techniques of the average gender wage … gap. The paper provides some stylized facts of the level and dynamics of the gender wage gap from 1975-1995. The empirical …

We use monthly personnel records of a large German company to analyse the gender wage gap (GWG). Main findings are: (1 … significant impact on the GWG; (8) the gender gap in absenteeism is between 26 and 46 percent. Overall, the results are consistent … with statistical discrimination explanations of the gender wage gap, though we cannot rule out other forms of …

We show that controlling for subject of degree explains a significant part of the male/female gender wage differential …) of the overall male/female gender wage gap, and an even larger amount of the part explained by factors entered into wage …

In this paper we investigate the evolution of the gender wage gap over early careers of skilled workers in Germany …

Most existing analyses on the gender wage gap (GWG) have neglected the establishment as a place where inequality … the individual and consider the importance of the workplace to explain gender pay differentials. That is, we first provide … employees), but look at within-firm gender wage differentials. Our results indicate that the mean GWG within firms is smaller …