The gender pay gap in the public and private sector in Germany. Magnitude, evolution 2010-2014 and main drivers.

Autor/inn/en	Boll, Christina; Lagemann, Andreas
Institution	Hamburgisches WeltWirtschaftsInstitut
Titel	The gender pay gap in the public and private sector in Germany. Magnitude, evolution 2010-2014 and main drivers. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Der geschlechtsspezifische Lohnunterschied im öffentlichen Dienst und in der privaten Wirtschaft Deutschlands. Ausmaß, Entwicklung 2010-2014 und Hauptursachen.
Quelle	Hamburg (2018), 45 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	HWWI research paper. 183
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
ISSN	1861-504X
Schlagwörter	Bildungssystem; Einkommensunterschied; Militär; Sozialversicherung; Privatwirtschaft; Geschlechtsspezifik; Öffentliche Verwaltung; Öffentlicher Dienst
Abstract	"The present study examines, based on the Structure of Earnings Survey (SES) 2010 and 2014, the unadjusted gender pay gap of the public sector (economic sectors O (Public Administration, Defence, and compulsory Social Security) and P (Education)) compared to the private economy. The unadjusted gender pay gap in the public sector stood at 5.6 % in 2014 and was virtually unchanged compared to 2010. The gap in the private economy remained about four times as high. The wage advantage of women over men among part-time workers, both in the public and in the private sector, is due to the relatively high proportion of marginally and temporarily employed workers and the relatively short firm tenure among men. Among fulltime workers, the explained part of the gap is driven by the performance group. The findings once again underline the need to review gender-based access to leading positions in the public sector. The detailed decomposition of the explained part for all workers reveals that the advantageous distribution of performance groups and levels of education, as well as the lower rate of part-time employment among men, explains their earnings advantage. In the private economy, men also benefit from their employment in wage-attractive sectors." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2019/1