About time: The narrowing gender wage gap in Austria

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We examine the gender wage gap in Austria from 2005 to 2017 using data from EU-SILC. The raw wage gap declined from 18.6 logpoints in 2005 to 14.9 log points in 2017. We use standard decomposition techniques that correct for differences in the distributionsof human capital and other variables between men and women. All calculated decompositions indicate that the unexplained partof the gender wage gap decreased substantially over the last ten years. The decrease of the unexplained gender wage gap betweenthe largest gap in this period (2006) and the most recent gap (2017) ranges from 3.7 log points to 8.5 log points dependingon the decomposition approach. Using the approach developed by Neumark (1988), the corrected wage gap shrank from 8.7 logpoints in 2005 (8.8 log points in 2006) to 5.1 log points in 2017. The main reason for the decline in wage differences isthe relative improvement of women's observed and unobserved characteristics.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: WIFO Working Papers ; No. 589

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials ; Labor Discrimination
• Subject: gender wage differentials ; wage inequality ; decomposition ; EU-SILC

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Böheim, René ; Fink, Marian ; Zulehner, Christine
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO)
• (where): Vienna
• (when): 2019

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/207162
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET