The gender reservation wage gap: evidence from British panel data

Sarah Brown (), Jennifer Roberts and Karl Taylor

No 2010010, Working Papers from The University of Sheffield, Department of Economics

Abstract: Our findings suggest the existence of a gender reservation wage gap, with a differential of around 10%. The presence of children, particularly pre-school age children, plays an important role in explaining this differential. For individuals without children, the explained component of the differential is only 5%, which might indicate that perceived discrimination in the labour market influences the reservation wage setting of females.

Keywords: Reservation Wages; Wage Decomposition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 J24 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 9 pages
Date: 2010-05, Revised 2010-05
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