Do women benefit from competitive markets? Product market competition and the gender pay gap in Germany

Boris Hirsch, Michael Oberfichtner and Claus Schnabel

Economics Bulletin, 2012, vol. 32, issue 2, 1618-1624

Abstract: Using a large linked employer–employee dataset for Germany with a direct plant-level measure of product market competition and controlling for job-cell fixed effects, we investigate whether relative wages of women benefit from strong competition. We find that the unexplained gender pay gap is about 2.4 log points lower in West German plants that face strong product market competition than in those experiencing weak competition, whereas no such link shows up for East Germany.

Keywords: Gender pay gap; discrimination; product market competition; Germany (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J3 J7 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-05-30
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