Inequality-adjusted gender wage differentials in Germany

Arbeitspapier

This paper exploits data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to re-examine the gender wage gap in Germany on the basis of inequality-adjusted measures of wage differentials which fully account for gender differences in pay distributions. The inequalityadjusted gender pay gap measures are significantly larger than suggested by standard indicators, especially in East Germany. Women appear penalized twice, with both lower mean wages and greater wage inequality. A hypothetical risky investment question collected in 2004 in the SOEP is used to estimate individual risk aversion parameters and benchmark the ranges of inequality-adjusted wage differentials measures.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IOS Working Papers ; No. 334

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials ; Labor Discrimination: General
• Thema: gender gap ; wage differentials ; wage inequality ; expected utility ; risk aversion ; East andWest Germany ; SOEP ; Singh-Maddala distribution ; copula-based selection model

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Selezneva, Ekaterina ; Van Kerm, Philippe
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS)
• (wo): Regensburg
• (wann): 2013

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/106624
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ