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December 9, 2021

Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

Women's managerial representation and the gender pay gap

Date

December 9, 2021
12:30 - 13:30

Location

Online seminar via Cisco Webex

Speakers

Virginia Sondergeld
This paper analyzes the impact of women's managerial representation on the gender pay gap among subordinates on the establishment level using German Linked-Employer-Employee-Data. For identification of a causal effect we employ two estimation strategies: 1) a panel model with establishment fixed effects and 2) an event study estimation around a discrete shift in managerial representation. We find evidence for the women's share in management to decrease the gender pay gap in a panel fixed-effects model with the effect being larger for second- than first-level management. Preliminary results from the event study estimation, however, are not always consistent with this finding.
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