Titel
About time: the narrowing gender wage gap in Austria
Autor*in
Marian Fink
WIFO Vienna
Abstract
We examine the gender wage gap in Austria from 2005 to 2017 using data from EU-SILC. The raw gap of hourly wages declined from 18.6 log points in 2005 to 14.9 log points in 2017. We use standard decomposition techniques that correct for differences in the distributions of human capital and other variables between men and women. Decompositions of the wage gap indicate that both the explained and the unexplained part of the gender wage gap decreased substantially over the last ten years. Using the approach developed by Neumark (J Hum Resour 22:279–295, 1988), the unexplained wage gap shrank from 8.7 log points in 2005 to 5.1 log points in 2017. The main reason for the decline in wage differences was the relative improvement of women’s observed and unobserved characteristics.
Stichwort
Gender wage differentialsWage inequalityDecompositionEU-SILC
Objekt-Typ
Sprache
Englisch [eng]
Persistent identifier
phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:1218544
Erschienen in
Titel
Empirica
ISSN
0340-8744
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Publication
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Fördergeber
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Zugänglichkeit
Rechte
Rechteangabe
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