Gender Gaps in Early Wage Expectations

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Using detailed data from a unique survey of high school graduates in Germany, we document a gender gap in expected full-time earnings of more than 15%. We apply a regression-compatible Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition and find that especially differences in coefficients help explain the gap. In particular, the effects of having time for family as career motive and being first-generation college student are associated with large penalties in female wage expectations exclusively. This is especially true for higher expected career paths. Resulting expected returns to education are associated with college enrollment of women and could thus entrench subsequent gaps in realized earnings.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 15281

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Returns to Education ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials ; Expectations; Speculations
• Thema: wage expectations ; gender gap ; college enrollment

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Leibing, Andreas ; Peter, Frauke ; Waights, Sevrin ; Spieß, C. Katharina
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2022

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/263497
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ