Does Age Exacerbate the Gender-Wage Gap? New Method and Evidence from Germany, 1984-2014

Irene van Staveren; J Tyrowicz; L van der Velde

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Does Age Exacerbate the Gender-Wage Gap? New Method and Evidence from Germany, 1984-2014

Irene van Staveren, J Tyrowicz, L van der Velde

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Given theoretical premises, the gender-wage gap adjusted for individual characteristics is likely to vary according to age. This study adapts John DiNardo, Nicole M. Fortin, and Thomas Lemieux's (1996) semi-parametric technique to disentangle year, cohort, and age effects in adjusted gender-wage gaps. The study relies on a long panel of data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) covering 1984–2015. The results indicate that, in Germany, the gender-wage gap increases over a birth cohort's lifetime, including in the post-reproductive age for some birth cohorts. The results suggest that age and gender are overlapping handicaps in the labor market and call for a policy intervention.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	108-30
Number of pages	23
Journal	Feminist Economics
Volume	24
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2018.1503418
Publication status	Published - 22 Aug 2018

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