Explaining the Gender Wage Gap: Estimates from a Dynamic Model of Job Changes and Hours Changes

Kai Liu

No 15/2012, Discussion Paper Series in Economics from Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Economics

Abstract: I address the causes of the gender wage gap with a new dynamic model of wage, hours, and job changes that permits me to decompose the gap into a portion due to gender differences in preferences for part-time work and in onstraints. The dynamic model allows the differences in constraints to reflect possible gender differences in job arrival rates, job destruction rates, the mean and variance of the wage offer distribution, and the full-time/part-time wage premium. I find that the differences in preferences explain no more than 5% of the gender gap in hourly wages and 7-20% of the gender gap in weekly wages. The differences in constraints, mainly in the form of differences in the mean offered wages, explain the remaining gender wage gap. Most of the gender differences in employment, hours of work and job turnover can be attributed to the differences in preferences.

Keywords: Gender differences; employment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J31 J63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41 pages
Date: 2012-06-22
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lab, nep-lma and nep-ltv
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.nhh.no/Admin/Public/DWSDownload.aspx?Fi ... pers%2f2012%2f15.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Explaining the gender wage gap: Estimates from a dynamic model of job changes and hours changes (2016)
Working Paper: Explaining the Gender Wage Gap: Estimates from a Dynamic Model of Job Changes and Hours Changes (2015)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hhs:nhheco:2012_015

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Discussion Paper Series in Economics from Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Economics NHH, Department of Economics, Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen, Norway. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Synne Stormoen ().