Segregation and gender wage gaps in the private and the public sectors: an analysis of Danish linked employer–employee data, 2002–2012

Karsten Albæk, Mona Larsen and Lars Stage Thomsen
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Mona Larsen: SFI – The Danish National Centre for Social Research
Lars Stage Thomsen: SFI – The Danish National Centre for Social Research

Empirical Economics, 2017, vol. 53, issue 2, No 16, 779-802

Abstract: Abstract This paper examines the relation between segregation and the gender wage gap in the public and the private sectors in Denmark from 2002 to 2012. The analysis shows that male–female differences in the share of females in occupations, industries, establishments and job cells (occupations within establishments) constitute 46 % of the raw gender wage gap in the private sector, while segregation in the public sector accounts for as much as 63 %. Segregation thus plays a substantially more important role in accounting for the gender wage gap in the public sector than in the private sector. While the importance of segregation for wage formation decreased substantially in the public sector over time, it only decreased slightly in the private sector. Although the remaining gender wage gap, after controlling for segregation, is close to zero in the public sector, a substantial within-job cell differential remains after controlling for segregation in the private sector.

Keywords: Wage gap; Gender; Segregation; Public sector (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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