Fig. 1

Detailed double decomposition of changes in the gender pay gap 2020-1984 at the mean and selected percentiles for selected sets of controls. Estimation based on approach outlined in Sects. 3 and 4. Men in 1984 are used as reference category. Aggregate refers to the change in the aggregate explained (panel (a)) or unexplained (panel (b)) component. Education, Full-Time Experience and Tenure, Past Part-Time Experience and Occupations and Industries are the changes in the corresponding parts (explained or unexplained) attributable to these sets of regressors. Education includes dummies for highest educational attainment. Occupations and Industries include occupation (ISCO 88, 1-digit) and industry (NACE, level 1) dummies. Figure 2 shows the detailed double decomposition for the remaining sets of controls. \(*** p<0.01\), \(** p<0.05\), \(* p<0.1\). Robust standard errors for the mean and bootstrapped standard errors across the distribution (500 replications) are used. SOEP sample weights used. Source: SOEP v37