The Gender Wage Gap and Discrimination, East Germany 1990-1997

Ira Gang and Myeong-Su Yun ()

Departmental Working Papers from Rutgers University, Department of Economics

Abstract: East Germany underwent rapid transition from a socialist to a market economy since the fall of the Berlin Wall. We are interested in whether women are better off or worse off relative to men as a result of this transition. We use the German Socio-Economic Panel Data 1990-1997 to study wage determination and implement a decomposition analysis which accounts for selection bias issues. Our analysis shows that even though the gender wage gap is shrinking, discrimination is not.

Keywords: employment; gender; hours; transition in labor markets; wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J21 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000-08-03
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