Gender Gaps in Early Wage Expectations

Andreas Leibing, Frauke Peter, Sevrin Waights and Katharina Spiess ()
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Sevrin Waights: Humboldt University Berlin

No 15281, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Using detailed data from a unique survey of high school graduates in Germany, we document a gender gap in expected full-time earnings of more than 15%. We apply a regression-compatible Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition and find that especially differences in coefficients help explain the gap. In particular, the effects of having time for family as career motive and being first-generation college student are associated with large penalties in female wage expectations exclusively. This is especially true for higher expected career paths. Resulting expected returns to education are associated with college enrollment of women and could thus entrench subsequent gaps in realized earnings.

Keywords: college enrollment; gender gap; wage expectations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D84 I26 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 45 pages
Date: 2022-05
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-gen, nep-hrm and nep-lma
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Published - published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 94, 102398

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