About time: the narrowing gender wage gap in Austria

Autor(en)
René Böheim, Marian Fink, Christine Zulehner
Abstrakt

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.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre
Externe Organisation(en)
Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (WIFO), IZA - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit, CESifo Research Network, Global Labor Organization (GLO), Télécom ParisTech
Journal
Empirica
Band
48
Seiten
803–843
Anzahl der Seiten
41
ISSN
0340-8744
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10663-020-09492-4
Publikationsdatum
10-2020
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
502002 Arbeitsmarkttheorie, 502046 Volkswirtschaftspolitik
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Economics and Econometrics
Sustainable Development Goals
SDG 5 – Geschlechtergleichheit, SDG 10 – Weniger Ungleichheiten
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