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
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Irene van Staveren: ISS Erasmus University

No 201803, IAAEU Discussion Papers from Institute of Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the European Union (IAAEU)

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)
Date: 2018-03
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Journal Article: Does Age Exacerbate the Gender-Wage Gap? New Method and Evidence From Germany, 1984–2014 (2018)
Working Paper: Identifying Age Penalty in Women's Wages: New Method and Evidence from Germany 1984-2014 (2018)
Working Paper: Identifying Age Penalty in Women's Wages: New Method and Evidence from Germany 1984-2014 (2017)
Working Paper: Identifying age penalty in women's wages: new method and evidence from Germany 1984-2014 (2017)
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