Hirsch, Boris; Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 3 (2014), pp. 1-14
plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender pay gap. Controlling for match fixed effects …Using linked employer-employee panel data for West Germany that include direct information on the competition faced by …, we find that intensified competition significantly lowers the unexplained gap in plants with neither collective …