Gender Differences in German Wage Mobility

Gender differences in experimental wage negotiations

We examine behavioral gender differences and gender pairing effects in a laboratory experiment with face-to-face alternating-offers wage bargaining. Our results suggest that male players are able to obtain better bargaining outcomes than female players. Male employees get higher wages than female employees. Male employers pay lower wages to female employees than female employers pay to male emp...

Individual Wage Mobility Individual Wage Mobility

This paper identifies some of the determinants of individual mobility in the wage distribution over time. The proposed model takes attrition as well as the decile of origin into account unlike all other used models to describe the wage mobility. A simpel probit analysis is compared with the more sofisticated method used in this paper. Even though the wage distribution in Denmark has been nearly...

An Experimental Investigation of Gender Differences in Wage Negotiations

There is a consensus that there is an unexplained gap between male and female wages: even after controlling for a broad range of demographic and industry characteristics, females make less than men. This paper investigates wage discrepancies between males and females through the lens of negotiation behavior. We introduce an experimental bargaining environment — the Demand Ultimatum Game (DUG) —...

Beyond the Mean Gender Wage Gap: Decomposition of Differences in Wage Distributions Using Quantile Regression

Using linked employer-employee data, this study measures and decomposes the differences in the earnings distribution between male and female employees in Germany. I extend the traditional decomposition to disentangle the effect of human capital characteristics and the effect of firm characteristics in explaining the gender wage gap. Furthermore, I implement the decomposition across the whole wa...

Gender Differences in Business Success of German Start-up Firms