The Gender Wage Gap in Top Corporate Jobs is Still There

43 Pages Posted: 25 Jun 2007

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Christine Zulehner

University of Vienna - Faculty of Business, Economics, and Statistics; Télécom Paris; Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

B. Burcin Yurtoglu

WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management

Date Written: June 2007

Abstract

We investigate the gender wage gap in top corporate jobs for 2000-2004. We find that female managers receive 24.0% less in total compensation than their male colleagues. When we control for personal, firm and industry characteristics, this difference reduces to 15.9%. Controlling for occupational segregation, i.e. "glass ceiling", reduces the difference to 6.0%. Additional results that fully consider the role of stock option indicate a 9.0 to 12.1% difference. These results suggest that the main sources of the gender wage gap are occupational segregation and a different endowment with stock options.

Keywords: Gender wage gap, managerial compensation

JEL Classification: J31, G3

Suggested Citation

Zulehner, Christine and Yurtoglu, B. Burcin, The Gender Wage Gap in Top Corporate Jobs is Still There (June 2007). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=996224 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.996224

Christine Zulehner

University of Vienna - Faculty of Business, Economics, and Statistics ( email )

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B. Burcin Yurtoglu (Contact Author)

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