Der Gender Income Gap bei den Selbstständigen – Empirische Befunde

Gather, Claudia; Schmidt, Tanja; Ulbricht, Susan

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“…Compared with the gender pay gap in paid work (e.g., Altonji and Blank, 1999;Weichselbaumer and Winter-Ebmer, 2005) it is not clear whether the gender earnings gap in self-employment is higher or lower (e.g., Moore, 1983;Eastough and Miller, 2004). Gather et al (2010) and Lechmann and Schnabel (2012) analyze the determinants of the gender earnings gap in Germany. Both find that the gender earnings gap is higher in case of self-employment.…”

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Self-Employed Individuals, Time Use, and Earnings

Konietzko

2014

J Fam Econ Iss

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This paper analyzes the time allocation of self-employed men and women compared to men and women in paid employment and the impact of housework on earnings of self-employed individuals using data from two German datasets. Self-employed women spend more time on housework activities and self-employed men spend more time on market work than their paid counterparts. While descriptive statistics and pooled OLS earnings regressions show a negative impact of time spent on housework on earnings, fixed-effects earnings regressions show only a negative impact on monthly earnings of self-employed men. This impact disappears after controlling for potential endogeneity via instrumental variable estimators. ZUSAMMENFASSUNG: Auf Grundlage zweier deutscher Datensätze untersucht diese Studie die Zeitallokation von selbständigen Frauen und Männern im Vergleich zu abhängig beschäftigten Frauen und Männern sowie den Einfluss der Hausarbeitszeit auf die Verdienste der Selbständigen. Im Gegensatz zu abhängig Beschäftigten verwenden selbständige Frauen mehr Zeit für Hausarbeit, während selbständige Männer mehr Zeit für Marktarbeit aufwenden. Sowohl die deskriptiven Analysen als auch gepoolte OLS Einkommensregressionen zeigen einen negativen Einfluss der Hausarbeitszeit auf die Einkommen der Selbständigen auf. Im Gegensatz dazu wird in den Fixed-Effekts-Einkommensschätzungen nur beim Monatslohn selbständiger Männer ein negativer Zusammenhang gefunden. Dieser Effekt verschwindet nach einer Kontrolle auf potentielle Endogenität mittels Instrumentenvariablen.

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Self-Employed Individuals, Time Use, and Earnings

Konietzko

2014

J Fam Econ Iss

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“…Mit dem Anwachsen der atypischen und prekären Erwerbsarbeit, der Zunahme der Vielfalt der Erwerbsverläufe und der Brüche in diesen Verläufen sowie der Zunahme der neuen (zeitweisen) SoloSelbstständigkeit gehen mehr Unsicherheit und auch eine unzureichende soziale Sicherung einher (Gather / Schmidt / Ulbricht 2010 …”

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»Unsere Luftschlösser haben U-Bahn-Anschluss.« Anders Wirtschaften in Frauenprojekten, was ist daraus geworden?

Gather¹

2013

Feministische Studien

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“…For the self-employed, she finds a small earnings gap which becomes larger but insignificant when attempting to correct for selection into (self-)employment, and does not perform a decomposition analysis. A recent survey by Gather et al (2010) provides some bivariate inspection of the gender earnings gap in Germany. Based on the 2007 wave of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) the authors calculate that fulltime self-employed women earn 34.7 percent less than men in self-employment.…”

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“…The difference in educational levels, however, seems to be less pronounced for paid employees which could be one explanation for the larger gender earnings gap in selfemployment. 6 (Table 2 about here) 4 Based on GSOEP data for 2007, Gather et al (2010), report gender earnings differences of similar magnitude: Among fulltime self-employed workers they calculate a gender earnings gap of 34.7 percent, among fulltime paid employees a gender wage gap of 22.6 percent.…”

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What Explains the Gender Earnings Gap in Self-Employment? A Decomposition Analysis with German Data

Lechmann

Schnabel

2012

SSRN Journal

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What Explains the Gender Earnings Gap in Self-Employment?A Decomposition Analysis with German Data * Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in self-employment than in paid employment. Applying an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, more than a quarter of the difference in monthly self-employment earnings can be traced back to women working fewer hours than men. In contrast variables like family background, working time flexibility and career aspirations do not seem to contribute much to the gender earnings gap, suggesting that self-employed women do not earn less because they are seeking work-family balance rather than profits. Differences in human capital endowments account for another 13 percent of the gap but segregation does not contribute to the gender earnings gap in a robust way.

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Der Gender Income Gap bei den Selbstständigen – Empirische Befunde

Cited by 6 publications

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Self-Employed Individuals, Time Use, and Earnings

Self-Employed Individuals, Time Use, and Earnings

»Unsere Luftschlösser haben U-Bahn-Anschluss.« Anders Wirtschaften in Frauenprojekten, was ist daraus geworden?

What Explains the Gender Earnings Gap in Self-Employment? A Decomposition Analysis with German Data

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