TY  - GEN
T1  - Overconfidence and gender differences in wage expectations
A1  - Briel,Stephanie
A1  - Osikominu,Aderonke
A1  - Pfeifer,Gregor
A1  - Reuter,Mirjam
A1  - Satlukal,Sascha
Y1  - 2020/10/20
N2  - We analyze the impact of (over-)confidence on gender differences in expected start-ing salaries using elicited beliefs of prospective university students in Germany. According to our results, female students have lower wage expectations and are less overconfident than their male counterparts. Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions of the mean show that 7.7% of the gender gap in wage expectations is attributable to a higher overconfidence of males. Decompositions of the unconditional quantiles of expected salaries suggest that the contribution of gender differences in confidence to the gender gap is particularly strong at the bottom and top of the wage expectation distribution.
KW  - Geschlechterforschung
KW  - Lohn
CY  - Hohenheim
PB  - Kommunikations-, Informations- und Medienzentrum der Universität Hohenheim
AD  - Garbenstr. 15, 70593 Stuttgart
UR  - http://opus.uni-hohenheim.de/volltexte/2020/1810
ER  -