Thursday, May 01, 2014

Gender Pay Gaps among Highly Educated Professionals: Compensation Components Do Matter

Abstract:
Making use of panel data from a survey of highly educated professionals, gender pay gaps are explored with regard to total compensation as well as to individual compensation components. The results indicate meaningful male-female wage differentials for this quite homogeneous group of people working in one specific industry: in particular for more experienced employees in higher positions of firm hierarchies with children. Gender pay gaps are much more pronounced for bonus payments than they are for fixed salaries.

Source: Institute of Labour (IZA)

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