Die geschlechtsspezifische Lohnlücke in Deutschland: Umfang, Ursachen und Interpretation
Christina Boll and
Julian Leppin
Wirtschaftsdienst, 2015, vol. 95, issue 4, 249-254
Abstract:
The gender pay gap in Germany amounts to 22% according to the Federal Statistical Office (2014). Based on the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), the authors tested the robustness of the gap, comparing different specifications of covariates and the underlying sample. They decompose the wage gap of their preferred specification into an explained part (20.5 log points) and an unexplained part (2.3 log points). Furthermore, a quantile decomposition reveals higher wage differentials for outer quantiles and increased importance of the unexplained part for higher quantiles. The authors suggest that discrimination cannot be singled out. However, part of it might go unrecorded in both components of the gap. Copyright ZBW and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015
Keywords: J16; J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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