The distribution of the gender wage gap in Austria: evidence from matched employer-employee data and tax records

We examine the gender wage gap in Austria using new matched employer-employee data from 2007. We estimate quantile regressions and investigate the gender wage gap at the conditional wage distribution of men and women. We decompose the gender wage gap into the parts which are due to different charact...

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Published in:Journal for labour market research 2013-03, Vol.46 (1), p.19-34
Main Authors: Böheim, René, Himpele, Klemens, Mahringer, Helmut, Zulehner, Christine
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Austria
Economic Policy
Economics
Economics and Finance
Employees
Employers
erwerbstätige Frauen
erwerbstätige Männer
Gender differences
Gender pay gap
geschlechtsspezifische Faktoren
Human capital
Human Resource Management
Labor Economics
Lohndiskriminierung
Lohnhöhe
Lohnstruktur
Lohnunterschied
Population Economics
Regional/Spatial Science
Sociology
Taxes
Wages & salaries
Women
Österreich
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Summary:We examine the gender wage gap in Austria using new matched employer-employee data from 2007. We estimate quantile regressions and investigate the gender wage gap at the conditional wage distribution of men and women. We decompose the gender wage gap into the parts which are due to different characteristics and different returns to these characteristics. About 60 % of the gender wage gap cannot be explained by differences in human capital or other observable indicators of productivity. Taking differences in the characteristics into account, we find that women earn on average about 11 % less than men. We further estimate that differences in the returns for women and men increase over the wage distribution.
ISSN:2510-5027
1614-3485
2510-5019
2510-5027
1614-3485
1867-8343
DOI:10.1007/s12651-012-0113-y