Gender pay gaps among highly educated professionals — Compensation components do matter

Christian Grund

Labour Economics, 2015, vol. 34, issue C, 118-126

Abstract: Making use of panel data from a survey of highly educated professionals, gender pay gaps are explored with regard to total compensation as well as to individual compensation components. The results indicate meaningful male–female wage differentials for this quite homogeneous group of people working in one specific industry: in particular for more experienced employees in higher positions of firm hierarchies with children. Gender pay gaps are much more pronounced for bonus payments than they are for fixed salaries.

Keywords: Bonus payments; Fixed salaries; Gender wage gap; Management compensation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 J33 M52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2015.03.010

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