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Boris Hirsch, Michael Oberfichtner and Claus Schnabel
 
''Do women benefit from competitive markets? Product market competition and the gender pay gap in Germany''
( 2012, Vol. 32 No.2 )
 
 
Using a large linked employer–employee dataset for Germany with a direct plant-level measure of product market competition and controlling for job-cell fixed effects, we investigate whether relative wages of women benefit from strong competition. We find that the unexplained gender pay gap is about 2.4 log points lower in West German plants that face strong product market competition than in those experiencing weak competition, whereas no such link shows up for East Germany.
 
 
Keywords: Gender pay gap, discrimination, product market competition, Germany
JEL: J3 - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General
J7 - Labor Discrimination: General
 
Manuscript Received : Apr 04 2012 Manuscript Accepted : May 30 2012

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