Identifying age penalty in women's wages: new method and evidence from Germany 1984-2014
Tyrowicz, Joanna ; van der Velde, Lucas ; van Staveren, Irene
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Berlin
DIW - Berlin
2017
24 p.
wage differential ; gender ; age discrimination ; age ; women workers
SOEPpapers
956
Wages and wage payment systems
English
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"Given theoretical premises, gender wage gap adjusted for individual characteristics is likely to vary over age. We extend DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) semi-parametric technique to disentangle year, cohort and age effects in adjusted gender wage gaps. We rely on a long panel of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel covering the 1984-2015 period. Our results indicate that the gender wage gap increases over the lifetime, for some birth cohorts also in the post-reproductive age."
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