Gender Differences in Wage Expectations and Negotiation

Lukas Kiessling, Pia Pinger, Philipp Seegers and Jan Bergerhoff

No 10838, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: This paper presents evidence from a large-scale study on gender differences in expected wages before labor market entry. Based on data for over 15,000 students, we document a significant and large gender gap in wage expectations that resembles actual wage differences, prevails across subgroups, and along the entire distribution. Over the life-cycle this gap amounts to roughly half a million Euros. Our findings further suggest that expected wages relate to expected asking and reservation wages and that a difference in plans about “boldness” during prospective wage negotiations pertains to gender difference in expected and actual wages. Given the importance of wage expectations for labor market decisions, household bargaining, and wage setting, our results provide an explanation for persistent gender inequalities.

Keywords: wage expectations; gender gap; negotiations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D81 D84 I21 I23 J13 J30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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