Arbeitspapier

A Bayesian Analysis of Female Wage Dynamics Using Markov Chain Clustering

In this work, we analyze wage careers of women in Austria. We identify groups of female employees with similar patterns in their earnings development. Covariates such as e.g. the age of entry, the number of children or maternity leave help to detect these groups. We find three different types of female employees: (1) “high-wage mums”, women with high income and one or two children, (2) “low-wage mums”, women with low income and ‘many’ children and (3) “childless careers”, women who climb up the career ladder and do not have children. We use a Markov chain clustering approach to find groups in the discretevalued time series of income states. Additional covariates are included when modeling group membership via a multinomial logit model.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: NRN Working Paper, NRN: The Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of the Welfare State ; No. 1104

Classification
Wirtschaft
Subject
Income Career
Transition Data
Multinomial Logit
Auxiliary Mixture Sampler
Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Pamminger, Christoph
Tüchler, Regina
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Johannes Kepler University Linz, NRN - The Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of the Welfare State
(where)
Linz
(when)
2011

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  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Pamminger, Christoph
  • Tüchler, Regina
  • Johannes Kepler University Linz, NRN - The Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of the Welfare State

Time of origin

  • 2011

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