Gender wage differences in West Germany. A cohort analysis. An essay to filter out time effects and life cycle effects.

Autor/in	Antonczyk, Dirk
Titel	Gender wage differences in West Germany. A cohort analysis. An essay to filter out time effects and life cycle effects. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Geschlechtsspezifische Lohnunterschiede in Westdeutschland. Eine Kohortenanalyse. Ein Versuch Zeiteffekte und Lebenszykluseffekte herauszufiltern.
Quelle	Berlin (2007), 67 S.Verfügbarkeit Berlin, Humboldt-Univ., Dipl.-Arbeit, 2007.
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Stichprobe; Frau; Einkommensunterschied; Lohnentwicklung; Lohnhöhe; Lohnstruktur; Beschäftigter; Erwerbstätiger; Qualifikationsniveau; Altersabhängigkeit; Geschlechtsspezifik; Hochschulschrift; IAB-Beschäftigtenstichprobe; Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung; Mann
Abstract	"This study is a descriptive analysis of the gender wage gap in West Germany for the period from 1975 to 2001. It updates the study from Fitzenberger and Wunderlich (2002) on the same subject. The present study is based upon the IAB subsample. Using quantile regression in a cohort setting, a simple methodology that accounts for heterogeneity in the wage distribution, this approach goes further than standard decomposition methods which measure only the mean of the gender wage gap. The update period is particular interesting, as some authors argue that rising inequality started to affect the top of the wage distribution during the 1980's, but the bottom of the distribution only in the 1990's. The study shows that wage distributions depend highly on skill level, employment status, and gender. The results of this paper are to be seen as stylized facts. Life-cycle wage growth is generally greater for men than for women. The time trend is higher for women, implying that the gender wage gap has narrowed during the observed period, and this mostly in the lower part of the wage distribution and especially for low- and medium-skilled women, while high-skilled women seem to be less successful." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch; Längsschnitt. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1975 bis 2001. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2008/2