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Author-Name: Boris Hirsch
Author-X-Name-First: Boris
Author-X-Name-Last: Hirsch

Author-Name: Marion König
Author-X-Name-First: Marion
Author-X-Name-Last: König

Author-Name: Joachim Möller
Author-X-Name-First: Joachim
Author-X-Name-Last: Möller

Title: Is There a Gap in the Gap? Regional Differences in the Gender Pay Gap   
	
Abstract: In this paper, we investigate regional dierences in the gender pay gap both theoretically and empirically. Within a spatial oligopsony model, we show that more densely populated labour markets are more competitive and constrain employers' ability to discriminate against women. Utilising a large administrative data set for western Germany and a fexible semi-parametric propensity score matching approach, we and that the unexplained gender pay gap for young workers is substantially lower in large metropolitan than in rural areas. This regional gap in the gap of roughly ten percentage points remained surprisingly constant over the entire observation period of thirty years.
Length:  28 pages
Creation-Date:  2009-10
File-URL: http://www.bgpe.de/texte/DP/083_hirsch.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
File-Function: First version, 2009
Number: 083
Classification-JEL: J16, J42, J71
Keywords: Gender pay gap, urban-rural differences, matching, monopsonistic discrimination
Handle: RePEc:bav:wpaper:083_hirsch