Differences in the Estimates of Gender Wage Gap Over The Life Cycle

Joanna Tyrowicz, Lucas van der Velde and Irene van Staveren (staveren@iss.nl)

No 2015-29, Working Papers from Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw

Abstract: Given theoretical premises, there is some ground to expect the gender wage gap adjusted for individual characteristics to be age specific. We rely on a long panel of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel covering the 1984-2008 period. We employ the DiNardo et al. (1996) technique to disentangle cohort and age effects. Our results indicate that the gender wage gap increases over the lifetime, but decreases with time. This finding runs contrary to the hypothesis that it is during the reproductive age that women's wages relative to men's wages suffer most. We suggest explanations for this pattern.

Keywords: gender wage gap; age; decomposition; non-parametric estimates (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2015
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