Gender wage differences in West Germany a cohort analysis

A comprehensive descriptive analysis of gender wage differences over a long time period is missing for West Germany. Using an empirical approach which takes into account explicitely changes of wage distributions for both males and females as well as life-cycle and birth cohort effects, we go beyond...

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1. Verfasser: Fitzenberger, Bernd (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Wunderlich, Gaby (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Mannheim ZEW 2000
Schriftenreihe:Discussion paper 00,48 : Labour economics, human resources and social policy
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1975-1995 > Lohnstruktur > Geschlecht > Fraueneinkommen > Schätzung > Deutschland > Kohortenanalyse > Arbeitspapier > Graue Literatur > Arbeitnehmerin > Arbeitnehmer > Geschichte 1975-1995 > Geschlechtsunterschied > Geschichte 1975
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Zusammenfassung:A comprehensive descriptive analysis of gender wage differences over a long time period is missing for West Germany. Using an empirical approach which takes into account explicitely changes of wage distributions for both males and females as 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 analysis is based upon the IAB-Beschäftigtenstichprobe. Our findings confirm the importance of distributional effects relating to skill level and employment status. While life-cycle wage growth is in general much lower for females compared to males, comparing their estimated time trends implies that the gender wage gap has narrowed substantially in the lower part of the wage distribution especially for low-and medium-skilled females but much less so in the upper part of the wage distribution. Surprisingly, we do not find any cohort effects for wages of female employees.
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