The Gender Gap in Pensions and Wages

William Even () and David Macpherson

The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1990, vol. 72, issue 2, 259-65

Abstract: This study provides rationale for the underrepresentation of women in the pension sector and examines the consequences for the gender wage gap. For a given set of observed characteristics, a woman is 11-19 percent less likely than a man to have a pension. Of the unexplained portion of the gender wage gap, 10-38 percent is due to unexplained differences in pension coverage. Finally, consistent with a screening effect of pensions, women are paid more equally in the pension sector. Copyright 1990 by MIT Press.

Date: 1990
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