Changes in the gender pay gap over time: the case of West Germany

Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 2 Oaxaca–Blinder aggregate decomposition in 1984 and 2020 at the mean and selected percentiles

	Mean		10th Percentile		50th Percentile		90th Percentile
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)	(7)	(8)
	1984	2020	1984	2020	1984	2020	1984	2020
GPG	0.327*** (0.020)	0.166*** (0.018)	0.533*** (0.037)	0.191*** (0.040)	0.305*** (0.016)	0.145*** (0.020)	0.175*** (0.024)	0.239*** (0.030)
Explained: Q	0.166*** (0.031)	0.093*** (0.020)	0.148*** (0.035)	0.162*** (0.044)	0.157*** (0.019)	0.049** (0.022)	0.104*** (0.031)	0.128*** (0.046)
in % of GPG	50.76	56.02	27.77	84.82	51.48	33.79	59.43	53.56
Unexplained: P	0.161*** (0.036)	0.073*** (0.024)	0.385*** (0.052)	0.029 (0.056)	0.148*** (0.025)	0.096*** (0.027)	0.071** (0.036)	0.110** (0.048)
in % of GPG	49.24	43.98	72.23	15.18	48.52	66.21	40.57	46.44
Observations	4064	4138	4064	4138	4064	4138	4064	4138
Unexplained: P	0.161*** (0.036)	0.073*** (0.024)	0.385*** (0.052)	0.029 (0.056)	0.148*** (0.025)	0.096*** (0.027)	0.071** (0.036)	0.110** (0.048)
in % of GPG	49.24	43.98	72.23	15.18	48.52	66.21	40.57	46.44
Observations	4064	4138	4064	4138	4064	4138	4064	4138

Table shows aggregate Oaxaca–Blinder decompositions of the Gender Pay Gap (GPG) in West Germany. Men are used as reference category. The regressions include quadratic polynomials of full-time experience, job tenure, past part-time experience (controls in years), as well as dummies for highest educational attainment, age, marital status, migration background, having at least one child, having at least one child below the age of two and between 2 and 6 years, respectively. Further, the following dummies are included: occupations (ISCO-88, 1-digit) and industries (NACE, level 1), small (\(<200\) employees) and medium (\(200-1999\) employees) firm size and public-sector firm. Federal state fixed effects included. Robust (for the mean) and bootstrapped (for the estimates beyond the mean, 500 replications) standard errors in parentheses. \(*** p<0.01\), \(** p<0.05\), \(* p<0.1\). SOEP sample weights used. Source: SOEP v37