Do women benefit from competitive markets? Product market competition and the gender pay gap in Germany
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Do women benefit from competitive markets? Product market competition and the gender pay gap in Germany. / Hirsch, Boris; Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus.
in: Economics Bulletin, Jahrgang 32, Nr. 2, 01.05.2012, S. 1618-1624.Publikation: Beiträge in Zeitschriften › Zeitschriftenaufsätze › Forschung › begutachtet
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T1 - Do women benefit from competitive markets?
T2 - Product market competition and the gender pay gap in Germany
AU - Hirsch, Boris
AU - Oberfichtner, Michael
AU - Schnabel, Claus
PY - 2012/5/1
Y1 - 2012/5/1
N2 - Using a large linked employer-employee dataset for Germany with a direct plant-level measure of product market competition and controlling for job-cell fixed effects, we investigate whether relative wages of women benefit from strong competition. We find that the unexplained gender pay gap is about 2.4 log points lower in West German plants that face strong product market competition than in those experiencing weak competition, whereas no such link shows up for East Germany.
AB - Using a large linked employer-employee dataset for Germany with a direct plant-level measure of product market competition and controlling for job-cell fixed effects, we investigate whether relative wages of women benefit from strong competition. We find that the unexplained gender pay gap is about 2.4 log points lower in West German plants that face strong product market competition than in those experiencing weak competition, whereas no such link shows up for East Germany.
KW - Economics
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84873428913&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 32
SP - 1618
EP - 1624
JO - Economics Bulletin
JF - Economics Bulletin
SN - 1545-2921
IS - 2
ER -