Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/286747 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Citation: 
[Journal:] Empirical Economics [ISSN:] 1435-8921 [Volume:] 62 [Issue:] 1 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Berlin, Heidelberg [Year:] 2021 [Pages:] 187-212
Publisher: 
Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
We analyze gender differences in expected starting salaries along the wage expectations distribution of prospective university students in Germany, using elicited beliefs about both own salaries and salaries for average other students in the same field. Unconditional and conditional quantile regressions show 5–15% lower wage expectations for females. At all percentiles considered, the gender gap is more pronounced in the distribution of expected own salary than in the distribution of wages expected for average other students. 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.
Subjects: 
Gender pay gap
Wage expectations
Biased beliefs
Decomposition analysis
Conditional quantile regression
Unconditional quantile regression (RIF regression)
JEL: 
J16
D84
D91
C21
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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