Fields of Training, Plant Characteristics and the Gender Wage Gap in Entry Wages Among Skilled Workers: Evidence from German Administrative Data
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Fields of Training, Plant Characteristics and the Gender Wage Gap in Entry Wages Among Skilled Workers : Evidence from German Administrative Data. / Braakmann, Nils.
in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, Jahrgang 230, Nr. 1, 01.02.2010, S. 27-41.Publikation: Beiträge in Zeitschriften › Zeitschriftenaufsätze › Forschung › begutachtet
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T1 - Fields of Training, Plant Characteristics and the Gender Wage Gap in Entry Wages Among Skilled Workers
T2 - Evidence from German Administrative Data
AU - Braakmann, Nils
PY - 2010/2/1
Y1 - 2010/2/1
N2 - This paper investigates the gender wage gap among skilled German workers after the end of vocational training using data from social security records. Using information on worker and plant characteristics for the training plant, results from standard decomposition techniques show that up to 92 % of an initial 14 % earnings disadvantage for women in the first job can be attributed to differences in endowments. Of these, occupational segregation explains up to two thirds of the earnings gap, with plant characteristics accounting for about 25 %.
AB - This paper investigates the gender wage gap among skilled German workers after the end of vocational training using data from social security records. Using information on worker and plant characteristics for the training plant, results from standard decomposition techniques show that up to 92 % of an initial 14 % earnings disadvantage for women in the first job can be attributed to differences in endowments. Of these, occupational segregation explains up to two thirds of the earnings gap, with plant characteristics accounting for about 25 %.
KW - Economics
KW - Decomposition
KW - Field of training
KW - Gender wage gap
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U2 - 10.1515/jbnst-2010-0103
DO - 10.1515/jbnst-2010-0103
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 230
SP - 27
EP - 41
JO - Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
JF - Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
SN - 0021-4027
IS - 1
ER -