Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/298815 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research No. 1207
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
We analyze if technological progress and the change in the occupational structure have improved women's position in the labour market. We show that women increasingly work in non-routine manual and in interactive occupations. However, the observed narrowing of the gender wage gap is entirely driven by declining gender wag gaps within, rather than between, occupations. A decomposition exercise reveals that while explained factors have become more important contributors to the gender wage gap, the importance of unexplained factors factors has strongly declined. Therefore, unequal treatment based on unobservables, i.e. discrimination, is likely to have declined over time. Finally, technological change as measured by job tasks plays an ambiguous role. Institutional factors, and in particular part-time employment, are still a major driver of the gender wage gap.
Subjects: 
Technological progress
job tasks
occupational structure
gender gaps
gender wage gap
JEL: 
J24
J31
O33
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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