Rent Sharing and the Gender Bargaining Gap: Evidence from the Banking Sector

Sena Coskun Dalgic, Hermann Gartner and Ahmet Ali Taskin
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Sena Coskun Dalgic: FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, IAB, CEPR
Ahmet Ali Taskin: Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg, Germany

No 202506, IAB-Discussion Paper from Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany]

Abstract: "We use the removal of public bank guarantees in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment to estimate the gender bargaining power gap. Using comprehensive wage data from the universe of banking employees, combined with bank-level financial information, we find that women have approximately two-thirds of the bargaining power of men. Our model-based analysis suggests that this gender bargaining gap alone accounts for 13 to 25 percent of the observed gender wage gap in the sector. These findings highlight an important driver of gender inequality: Changes in firm profitability can reduce the gender wage gap, even without improvements in structural gender equality. This effect has significant implications for high-rent, high-inequality industries such as finance, where rent-sharing mechanisms favor male employees." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Keywords: Bundesrepublik Deutschland; IAB-Open-Access-Publikation; Auswirkungen; Bankberufe; Bankgewerbe; Finanzwirtschaft; geschlechtsspezifische Faktoren; Gewinnbeteiligung; Gleichstellung; IAB-Beschäftigtenhistorik; Lohnentwicklung; Lohnfindung; Lohnunterschied; Unternehmen; Arbeitsproduktivität; 1995-2007 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G21 G28 J16 J31 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2025-04-17
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DOI: 10.48720/IAB.DP.2506

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