About time: the narrowing gender wage gap in Austria

René Böheim, Marian Fink and Christine Zulehner ()
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Christine Zulehner: WIFO Vienna

Empirica, 2021, vol. 48, issue 4, No 1, 803-843

Abstract: Abstract We examine the gender wage gap in Austria from 2005 to 2017 using data from EU-SILC. The raw gap of hourly wages declined from 18.6 log points in 2005 to 14.9 log points in 2017. We use standard decomposition techniques that correct for differences in the distributions of human capital and other variables between men and women. Decompositions of the wage gap indicate that both the explained and the unexplained part of the gender wage gap decreased substantially over the last ten years. Using the approach developed by Neumark (J Hum Resour 22:279–295, 1988), the unexplained wage gap shrank from 8.7 log points in 2005 to 5.1 log points in 2017. The main reason for the decline in wage differences was the relative improvement of women’s observed and unobserved characteristics.

Keywords: Gender wage differentials; Wage inequality; Decomposition; EU-SILC (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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