TY - JOUR

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

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78349271230&partnerID=8YFLogxK

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 -