Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/163562 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
Agenda Austria Working Paper No. 05
Publisher: 
Agenda Austria, Wien
Abstract: 
Our paper makes a first attempt to address the impact of skills and skill use in the analysis of the gender wage gap using the PIAAC dataset. Using the case of Austria, we show that skill use as well as the skill match play an important role with regard to wage regressions of men as well as women. When we take skills into account in the gender wage gap analysis, the unexplained part of the gender wage gap is reduced by almost 4 percentage points along the whole wage distribution. Our results suggest that skill use and match play a crucial role in explaining the gender wage gap. Additionally, we show, that the self-selection problem biases the results, in particular in the lower and middle parts of the wage distribution and that we should control for it, although the effect is small. When we additionally consider discretionary bonus payments, we find that the unexplained part in the gender wage gap increases, especially in the upper part of the wage distribution.
Subjects: 
gender wage gap
skills
Austria
JEL: 
J31
J71
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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