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Scientific article 22. AUG 2016
  • Labour Market
  • Labour Market

Segregation and gender wage gaps in the private and the public sectors: an analysis of Danish linked employer-employee data, 2002-2012

Authors:

  • Karsten Albæk
  • Mona Larsen
  • Lars Stage Thomsen
  • Labour Market
  • Labour Market
This paper examines the relation between segregation and the gender wage gap in the public and the private sectors in Denmark from 2002 to 2012. The analysis shows that male–female differences in the share of females in occupations, industries,establishments and job cells (occupations within establishments) constitute 46% of the raw gender wage gap in the private sector, while segregation in t he public sector accounts for as much as 63 %. Segregation thus plays a substantially more important role in accounting for the gender wage gap in the public sector than in the private sector. While the importance of segregation for wage formation decreased substantially in the public sector over time, it only decreased slightly in the private sector. Although the remaining gender wage gap, after controlling for segregation, is close to zero in the public sector, a substantial within-job cell differential remains after controlling for segregation in the private sector.

Authors

  • Karsten AlbækMona LarsenLars Stage Thomsen

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    Empirical economics
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