Ira Gang
Rutgers University
Department of Economics
E-mail: gang@economics.rutgers.edu
Item Number:  [J46]
Title: The Gender Wage Gap and Discrimination, East Germany 1990–1997
Abstract: East Germany has undergone rapid transition from a socialist to a market economy since the fall of the Berlin Wall.  We are interested in whether women are better off or worse off relative to men as a result of this transition.  We use the German Socio-Economic Panel Data 1990-1997 to study wage determination and we implement a decomposition analysis that accounts for selection bias issues.  Our analysis shows that even though the gender wage gap is shrinking, gender discrimination is not.

Reference:  Ira N. Gang and Myeong-Su Yun, The Gender Wage Gap and Discrimination, East Germany 1990-1997,DIW-Vierteljahrshefte (Quarterly Journal of Economic Research), 1-01 (2001) 123-127.

Co-Author Information:
Myeong-Su Yun
Tulane University
Email: msyun@tulane.edu

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