Fig. 2

Detailed double decomposition of changes in the gender pay gap 2020-1984 at the mean and selected percentiles and remaining 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. Age, Children, Marital Status & Migration and Firm, Federal States are the changes in the corresponding parts (explained or unexplained) attributable to these sets of regressors. Age includes age dummies, Children includes dummies for having at least one child, for having at least one child below three years and between three and six years, respectively, Firm includes small (\(<200\) employees) and medium (\(200-1999\) employees) firms. \(*** p<0.01\), \(** p<0.05\), \(* p<0.1\). Robust standard errors for the mean and bootstrapped standard errors across the distribution (500 replications) are used. SOEP sample weights used. Source: SOEP v37