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

Link zum Portal

https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/about-time-the-narrowing-gender-wage-gap-in-austria(d486afd8-e7aa-4c55-806a-5c84a8622f88).html