Occupational Sex Segregation and Management-Level Wages in Germany: What Role Does Firm Size Play?

Anne Busch () and Elke Holst ()
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Anne Busch: DIW Berlin
Elke Holst: DIW Berlin

No 6568, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: The paper analyzes the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions based on German panel data and using fixed-effects models. It deals with the effect of occupational sex segregation on wages, and the extent to which wage penalties for managers in predominantly female occupations are moderated by firm size. Drawing on economic and organizational approaches and the devaluation of women's work, we find wage penalties for female occupations in management only in large firms. This indicates a pronounced devaluation of female occupations, which might be due to the longer existence, stronger formalization, or more established "old-boy networks" of large firms.

Keywords: occupational sex segregation; managerial positions; gender pay gap; gendered organization; firm size (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B54 J16 J24 J31 J71 L2 M51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41 pages
Date: 2012-05
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-hme, nep-lab and nep-ltv
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Published - shorter German version published in: Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 2013, 42 (4), 315-336

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