We investigate the gender pay gap in top corporate jobs for 2001-2007 and report that female managers receive 19 percent less in total compensation than their male colleagues. Controlling for various characteristics reduces this difference to seven percent. While the gender pay gap is slightly...

Using data from the OSIRIS database, we investigate the gender wage gap in top corporate jobs for the years 2000 till 2004. We find that female managers receive 24.0 percent less in total compensation (salary, bonuses, other payments and exercised stock options) than their male colleagues. This...

Policies to reduce the gender pay gap feature prominently on the political agenda and interventions in the labor market are frequently proposed, claiming a persistent wage gap. We examine the change of the gender wage gap in Austria between 2002 and 2007 with new data from administrative records...

We examine the gender wage gap in Austria using new matched employer-employee data from 2007. We investigate the gap at the conditional wage distribution of men and women, and decompose it into the parts which are attributed to different characteristics and different returns to these...

Policies to reduce the gender pay gap feature prominently on the political agenda and interventions in the labour market are frequently proposed, claiming a persistent wage gap. We examine the change of the gender wage gap in Austria between 2002 and 2007 with new data from administrative...

We examine the gender wage gap in Austria using new matched employer-employee data from 2007. We investigate the gap at the conditional wage distribution of men and women, and decompose it into the parts which are attributed to different characteristics and different returns to these...

Policies to reduce the gender pay gap feature prominently on the political agenda and interventions in the labor market are frequently proposed, claiming a persistent wage gap. We examine the change of the gender wage gap in Austria between 2002 and 2007 with new data from administrative records...