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IZA
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A Meta-Analysis of the International Gender Wage Gap
by
Doris Weichselbaumer, Rudolf Winter-Ebmer
(October 2003)
published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2005, 9 (3), 479-511
Abstract:
Since the early seventies, hundreds of authors have calculated gender wage differentials
between women and men of equal productivity. Consequently, estimates for the gender wage
gap have been published for the most diverse countries at different points in time. This
metastudy provides a quantitative review of this vast amount of empirical literature on gender
wage discrimination as it concerns differences in methodology, data, countries and time
periods. We place particular emphasis on a proper consideration of the quality of the
underlying study which is done by a weighting with quality indicators. The results show that
data restrictions have the biggest impact on the resulting gender wage gap. Moreover, we
are able to show what effect a misspecification of the underlying wage equation – like the
frequent use of potential experience – has on the calculated gender wage gap. Over time,
raw wage differentials world-wide have fallen substantially; however, most of this decrease is
due to an increased labor market productivity of females.
Text: See Discussion Paper No. 906
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