Reference : A distribution-sensitive examination of the gender wage gap in Germany
Scientific journals : Article
Social & behavioral sciences, psychology : Sociology & social sciences
Business & economic sciences : Social economics
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/35067
A distribution-sensitive examination of the gender wage gap in Germany
English
Selezneva, Ekaterina [OEI, Regensburg]
Van Kerm, Philippe mailto [Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research - LISER]
2016
Journal of Economic Inequality
14
1
21-40
Yes
International
[en] This paper provides a new examination of the gender pay gap for Germany based on a family of distribution-sensitive indicators. Wage distributions for men and women do not only differ by a fixed constant; differences are more complex. We show that focusing on the bottom of the wage distribution reveals a larger gender gap. Our distribution-sensitive analysis can also be used to study whether the statistical disadvantage of women in average pay might be ‘offset’ by lower inequality. Over a broad range of plausible preferences over inequality, we show however that ‘inequality-adjusted’ estimates of the gap can be up to three times higher than standard inequality-neutral measures in Eastern Germany and up to fifty percent higher in Western Germany. Using preference parameters elicited from a hypothetical risky investment question in our sample, inequality-adjusted gender gap measures turn out to be close to those upper bounds.
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/35067
10.1007/s10888-016-9320-z
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10888-016-9320-z

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