Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/331727 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 18163
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement (SHARE), this paper examines occupational pension income and coverage gaps between men and women. The focus is on a group of countries with comparable occupational pension regulations: Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands and Switzerland. The results show that after accounting for observable characteristics, over half of the gender gap in occupational pension coverage is explained, largely driven by women's shorter labour market participation, greater part-time work, and lower wages. Factors driving this gap remain constant across birth cohorts. Conditional on receiving an occupational pension, women receive nearly 40 percent less occupational pension income than men, partly due to part-time work and industry of employment. Selection into pension receipt has only a limited impact on the gender pension gap. While pension coverage gap decomposition shows little variation across countries, this is not the case for the gender pension gap, notably with cross-country differences in part-time work.
Subjects: 
gender occupational pension income and coverage gaps
Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition
Yun decomposition
selection
Europe
JEL: 
H75
I38
J32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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