Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/178323 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal for Labour Market Research [ISSN:] 2510-5027 [Volume:] 47 [Issue:] 1-2 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Heidelberg [Year:] 2014 [Pages:] 129-142
Publisher: 
Springer, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
Using a large linked employer-employee data set for Germany, we investigate differences in the unexplained gender pay gap between owner-run and manager-run firms. We hypothesise that owner-managers and hired managers differ in their discretion to engage in profit-reducing taste discrimination against women, which would translate into different pay gaps depending on leadership regime. We find that unexplained gaps are significantly higher in owner-run firms, both statistically and economically. Yet, scrutinising these results by restricting our analysis to firms that only differ in leadership regime, this substantial difference disappears. Therefore, our findings do not support that active owners are more discriminatory per se.
Subjects: 
Unternehmensführung - Auswirkungen
Lohnunterschied
geschlechtsspezifische Faktoren
erwerbstätige Frauen
erwerbstätige Männer
Lohndiskriminierung
Geschäftsführer
abhängig Beschäftigte
Unternehmer
Führungskräfte
IAB-Linked-Employer-Employee-Datensatz
JEL: 
J31
J16
J71
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Document Type: 
Article

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