Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/158787 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal for Labour Market Research [ISSN:] 2510-5027 [Volume:] 46 [Issue:] 1 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Heidelberg [Year:] 2013 [Pages:] 19-34
Publisher: 
Springer, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
Lohnunterschied
geschlechtsspezifische Faktoren
erwerbstätige Frauen
erwerbstätige Männer
Lohnstruktur
Lohndiskriminierung
Lohnhöhe
Österreich
JEL: 
J31
J71
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Document Type: 
Article

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