Identifying Age Penalty in Women's Wages: New Method and Evidence from Germany 1984-2014

Joanna Tyrowicz, Lucas van der Velde and Irene van Staveren

No 956, SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research from DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

Abstract: Given theoretical premises, gender wage gap adjusted for individual characteristics is likely to vary over age. We extend DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) semi-parametric technique to disentangle year, cohort and age effects in adjusted gender wage gaps. We rely on a long panel of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel covering the 1984-2015 period. Our results indicate that the gender wage gap increases over the lifetime, for some birth cohorts also in the post-reproductive age.

Keywords: gender wage gap; age; cohort; decomposition; non-parametric estimates; Germany (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 p.
Date: 2017
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age and nep-gen
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Journal Article: Does Age Exacerbate the Gender-Wage Gap? New Method and Evidence From Germany, 1984–2014 (2018)
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Working Paper: Identifying age penalty in women's wages: new method and evidence from Germany 1984-2014 (2017)
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