Gender Pay Gaps among Highly Educated Professionals: Compensation Components Do Matter

Christian Grund

No 8112, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Making use of panel data from a survey of highly educated professionals, gender pay gaps are explored with regard to total compensation as well as to individual compensation components. The results indicate meaningful male-female wage differentials for this quite homogeneous group of people working in one specific industry: in particular for more experienced employees in higher positions of firm hierarchies with children. Gender pay gaps are much more pronounced for bonus payments than they are for fixed salaries.

Keywords: gender wage gap; fixed salaries; bonus payments; management compensation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 J33 M52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2014-04
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Published - revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 34, 118-126

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