The gender pay gap in university student employment
- Gender pay gaps are commonly studied in populations with already completed educational careers. We focus on an earlier stage by investigating the gender pay gap among university students working alongside their studies. With data from five cohorts of a large-scale student survey from Germany, we use regression and wage decomposition techniques to describe gender pay gaps and potential explanations. We find that female students earn about 6% less on average than male students, which reduces to 4.1% when accounting for a rich set of explanatory variables. The largest explanatory factor is the type of jobs male and female students pursue.
| Author of HS Reutlingen | Zierow, Larissa |
|---|---|
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:rt2-opus4-40693 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-021-02194-1 |
| ISSN: | 0377-7332 |
| eISSN: | 1435-8921 |
| Erschienen in: | Empirical economics : a quarterly journal of the Institute for Advanced Studies |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| Place of publication: | Heidelberg |
| Document Type: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
| Publication year: | 2022 |
| Tag: | gender pay gap; job types; university student employment |
| Volume: | 63 |
| Page Number: | 61 |
| First Page: | 2253 |
| Last Page: | 2313 |
| PPN: | Im Katalog der Hochschule Reutlingen ansehen |
| DDC classes: | 330 Wirtschaft |
| Open access?: | Ja |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
