TY - UNPB
T1 - Swinging female labor demand
T2 - How the public sector influences gender wage gaps in Europe
AU - Ramskogler, Paul
AU - Riedl, Aleksandra
AU - Schoiswohl, Florian
PY - 2020/10/1
Y1 - 2020/10/1
N2 - We incorporate an economy’s sectoral structure into a standard theoretical framework to explain the influence of relative demand and supply effects on the gender wage gap. Using micro data covering 30 European countries over the 2003-2013 period, we construct a unique macro panel of gender wage gaps. We demonstrate that the public sector has causally determined half of the decrease in the gender wage gap over the period, thus acting as a ’swing demander’ for female labor. We further prove that it is exclusively demand factors and not composition effects that are driving this result.
AB - We incorporate an economy’s sectoral structure into a standard theoretical framework to explain the influence of relative demand and supply effects on the gender wage gap. Using micro data covering 30 European countries over the 2003-2013 period, we construct a unique macro panel of gender wage gaps. We demonstrate that the public sector has causally determined half of the decrease in the gender wage gap over the period, thus acting as a ’swing demander’ for female labor. We further prove that it is exclusively demand factors and not composition effects that are driving this result.
U2 - 10.57938/8455ffd0-a39c-423f-9d23-f0721db6d999
DO - 10.57938/8455ffd0-a39c-423f-9d23-f0721db6d999
M3 - WU Working Paper and Case
T3 - Department of Economics Working Paper Series
BT - Swinging female labor demand
PB - WU Vienna University of Economics and Business
CY - Vienna
ER -