Does Age Exacerbate the Gender-Wage Gap? New Method and Evidence From Germany, 1984–2014

Joanna Tyrowicz, Lucas van der Velde and Irene van Staveren

Feminist Economics, 2018, vol. 24, issue 4, 108-130

Abstract: Given theoretical premises, the gender-wage gap adjusted for individual characteristics is likely to vary according to age. This study adapts John DiNardo, Nicole M. Fortin, and Thomas Lemieux's (1996) semi-parametric technique to disentangle year, cohort, and age effects in adjusted gender-wage gaps. The study relies on a long panel of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) covering 1984–2015. The results indicate that, in Germany, the gender-wage gap increases over a birth cohort's lifetime, including in the post-reproductive age for some birth cohorts. The results suggest that age and gender are overlapping handicaps in the labor market and call for a policy intervention.

Date: 2018
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