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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2011
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
Working Paper No. 1103
Verlag: 
Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Department of Economics, Linz
Zusammenfassung: 
Policies to reduce the gender pay gap feature prominently on the political agenda and interventions in the labor market are frequently proposed, claiming a persistent wage gap. We examine the change of the gender wage gap in Austria between 2002 and 2007 with new data from administrative records and find that it declined from 24% in 2002 to 19% in 2007. We observe that women's improved educational attainments were partly ofiset by a shift in the demand for skilled workers that disadvantaged unskilled labor. The main determinant of this decline is however the improvement of women's relative position in unobserved characteristics.
Schlagwörter: 
gender wage differentials
wage inequality
decomposition
matched employer-employee data
JEL: 
J31
J71
Dokumentart: 
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