Arbeitspapier
Non-base compensation and the gender pay gap
This paper investigates whether non-base compensation contributes to the gender pay gap. In wage decompositions, we find that lower bonus payments to women explain about 10% of the gap at the mean and at different quantiles of the unconditional wage distribution whereas the lower prevalence of shift premia and overtime pay among women is unimportant. Among managers, the contribution of bonuses to the mean gap more than doubles and is steadily rising as one moves up the wage distribution. Our findings suggest that gender differences in bonuses are an important contributor to the gender pay gap, particularly in top jobs.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Working Paper Series in Economics ; No. 404
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Labor Discrimination
- Subject
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gender pay gap
bonus payments
shift premia
overtime pay
glass ceilings
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Hirsch, Boris
Lentge, Philipp
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre
- (where)
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Lüneburg
- (when)
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2021
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Hirsch, Boris
- Lentge, Philipp
- Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre
Time of origin
- 2021
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