Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/21375 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 553
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We show that controlling for subject of degree explains a significant part of the male/female gender wage differential amongst graduates. Using data from the labour force surveys of the United Kingdom and Germany, we find similar results in these two countries: subject of degree explains about 2-4 percent higher wages of male over female graduates after controlling for age, industry, region, part-time and public sector employment. This is a significant part (between 9 to 19 percent) of the overall male/female gender wage gap, and an even larger amount of the part explained by factors entered into wage equations (at around 20 to 29 percent of the explained component).
Subjects: 
gender wage gap
field of major
JEL: 
J71
J16
J31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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