@techreport{Heinze2006Gender,
abstract = {Most existing analyses on the gender wage gap (GWG) have neglected the establishment as a
place where inequality between male and female employees arises and is maintained. The use
of linked employee-employer data permits us to move beyond the individual and consider the
importance of the workplace to explain gender pay differentials. That is, we first provide a
comprehensive study on the effects of various firm characteristics and the institutional
framework on the GWG in Germany. The innovation of our research is that we do not just
compare average male and female wages (of specific groups of employees), but look at
within-firm gender wage differentials. Our results indicate that the mean GWG within firms is
smaller than the average overall GWG. Furthermore, we can show that firms with formalized
co-determination (works council) and those covered by collective wage agreements are more
likely to have smaller GWG. It is also interesting to note that the wage differential between
men and women decreases with firm size and increases with the wage level.},
address = {Mannheim},
author = {Anja Heinze and Elke Wolf},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {J16; J31; 330; gender wage gap; unions; works councils; discrimination; within-firms wage differentials; Lohndifferenzierung; Geschlecht; Frauenarbeitslohn; Geschlechterdiskriminierung; Unternehmen; Arbeitsplatz; Mitbestimmung; Tarifpolitik; Sch\"{a}tzung; Deutschland},
language = {eng},
number = {06-20},
publisher = {Zentrum f\"{u}r Europ\"{a}ische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)},
title = {Gender Earnings Gap in German Firms: The Impact of Firm Characteristics and Institutions},
type = {ZEW Discussion Papers},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/24212},
year = {2006}
}
