Equality for Whom? Organizational Policies and the Gender Gap across the German Earnings Distribution

Author:

Huffman Matt L.,King Joe,Reichelt Malte1

Affiliation:

1. Matt L. Huffman is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Joe King is a Statistician at the U.S. Census Bureau. Malte Reichelt is Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy at the New York University Abu Dhabi and Senior Researcher at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB).

Abstract

Work establishments are critical for the creation and maintenance of gender inequality. Organizational practices, most notably those that formalize personnel systems or target gender inequality, are often assumed to have uniform effects on inequality across the wage hierarchy. This assumption has eluded careful empirical scrutiny. The authors estimate unconditional quantile regressions with a unique German linked employer-employee data set to assess whether formalized human resource practices, female-friendly diversity measures, and the availability of workplace child care facilities affect wage inequality differently across the wage distribution. While these policies reduce gender inequality in general, they do so more strongly near the bottom of the earnings distribution. Policies that formalize personnel systems and explicitly promote female employees are particularly advantageous to women in low-wage jobs. These results suggest that gender policies have a more subtle effect on earnings inequality than previously recognized, requiring scholars and practitioners to investigate their unique effects at various points of the earnings distribution.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Management of Technology and Innovation,Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management,Strategy and Management

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