Is There a Gap in the Gap? Regional Differences in the Gender Pay Gap
Boris Hirsch,
Marion König and
Joachim Möller
No 83, Working Papers from Bavarian Graduate Program in Economics (BGPE)
Abstract:
In this paper, we investigate regional di erences in the gender pay gap both theoretically and empirically. Within a spatial oligopsony model, we show that more densely populated labour markets are more competitive and constrain employers' ability to discriminate against women. Utilising a large administrative data set for western Germany and a fexible semi-parametric propensity score matching approach, we and that the unexplained gender pay gap for young workers is substantially lower in large metropolitan than in rural areas. This regional gap in the gap of roughly ten percentage points remained surprisingly constant over the entire observation period of thirty years.
Keywords: Gender pay gap; urban-rural differences; matching; monopsonistic discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J42 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2009-10
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Journal Article: Is There a Gap in the Gap? Regional Differences in the Gender Pay Gap (2013)
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