Replication data for: Changes in Workplace Heterogeneity and How They Widen the Gender Wage Gap
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Project Citation:
Bruns, Benjamin. Replication data for: Changes in Workplace Heterogeneity and How They Widen the Gender Wage Gap. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2019. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113713V1
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Summary:
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Using linked employer-employee data for West Germany, I investigate the role of growing wage differentials between firms in the slowdown of gender wage convergence since the 1990s. The results show that two factors are at play: first, high-wage firms experience higher wage growth and employ disproportionately more men, and second, male firm premiums grow faster than female premiums in the same firms. These developments were catalyzed by a decline of union coverage, coupled with more firm-specific wage setting in collective bargaining agreements. Taken together, these conditions prevented the gender gap from narrowing by approximately 15 percent between the 1990s and 2000s.
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J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
J51 Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects
J71 Labor Discrimination
J16 Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
J51 Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects
J71 Labor Discrimination
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