Gender Differences in Wage Expectations: The Role of Biased Beliefs
39 Pages Posted: 28 Jul 2020 Last revised: 15 Mar 2021
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Overconfidence and Gender Differences in Wage Expectations
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13517
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 29 Jul 2020
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Date Written: July 2020
Abstract
Decomposition results show that biased beliefs about the own earnings potential relative to others and about average salaries play a major role in explaining the gender gap in wage expectations for oneself.
JEL Classification: C21, D84, D91, J16
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Briel, Stephanie and Osikominu, Aderonke and Pfeifer, Gregor and Reutter, Mirjam and Satlukal, Sascha, Gender Differences in Wage Expectations: The Role of Biased Beliefs (July 2020). CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15093, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3661437
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