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When Are ?Female? Occupations Paying More?

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dc.creator Jurajda, Štepán
dc.creator Harmgart, Heike
dc.date 2004
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:09:23Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:09:23Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20220
dc.identifier ppn:378139401
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20220
dc.description We compare the importance of occupational gender segregation for the gender wage gap in East and West Germany in 1995 using a sample of social-security wage records of full-time workers. East Germany, which features a somewhat higher degree of occupational segregation, has a gender wage gap on the order of one fifth of the West German gap. Segregation is not related to the West German wage gap, but in East Germany, wages of both men and women are higher in predominantly female occupations. East German female employees apparently have better observable and unobservable characteristics than their male colleagues. These findings are in contrast to a large U.S. literature, but are consistent with the imposition of high wage levels in East Germany at the outset of reforms and the selection of only high-skill women into employment. Finally, conditioning on unobservable labor quality differences using the longitudinal dimension of the data, there is a negligible impact of segregation in both parts of Germany.
dc.language eng
dc.relation IZA Discussion paper series 985
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject J71
dc.subject J21
dc.subject J16
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject occupational segregation
dc.subject gender wage gap
dc.subject Frauenarbeitslohn
dc.subject Lohndifferenzierung
dc.subject Arbeitsmarktsegmentierung
dc.subject Geschlecht
dc.subject Schätzung
dc.subject Neue Bundesländer
dc.title When Are ?Female? Occupations Paying More?
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper
dc.coverage 1975-1995


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