| 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  [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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