Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/94325 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2000-15
Publisher: 
Rutgers University, Department of Economics, New Brunswick, NJ
Abstract: 
East Germany underwent rapid transition from a socialist to a market economy since the fall of the Berlin Wall. We are interested in whether women are better off or worse off relative to men as a result of this transition. We use the German Socio-Economic Panel Data 1990-1997 to study wage determination and implement a decomposition analysis which accounts for selection bias issues. Our analysis shows that even though the gender wage gap is shrinking, discrimination is not.
Subjects: 
employment
gender
hours
transition in labor markets
wages
JEL: 
J16
J21
J22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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