Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/24477 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 01-56
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
Abstract: 
This paper contributes descriptive evidence on the development of the gender wage gap for different skill groups and full- and part-time employees in the U.K. The empirical analysis is based upon the General Household Survey from 1975 to 1995 and therefore provides evidence on an exceptionally long period. Our focus is not to provide a causal examination. We rather attempt to identify the macroeconomic trends of wages apart from life cycle and cohort effects implementing a model which takes into account the impact of age, time, and birth cohort simultaneously. Moreover, quantile regression is used to distinguish between various points of the entire wage distribution. We conclude that the wage gap between full-time employed females and full-time employed males has closed considerably during the observation period. The gap has closed mostly in the lower part of the wage distribution. In contrast, part-time employed women did not catch up relative to full-time employed men.
Subjects: 
Gender Wage Gap
Quantile Regression
Cohort Analysis
JEL: 
J31
J71
J16
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
1.96 MB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.