RT Generic
T1 Overconfidence and gender differences in wage expectations
A1 Briel,Stephanie
A1 Osikominu,Aderonke
A1 Pfeifer,Gregor
A1 Reuter,Mirjam
A1 Satlukal,Sascha
WP 2020/10/20
AB 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.
K1 Geschlechterforschung
K1 Lohn
PP Hohenheim
PB Kommunikations-, Informations- und Medienzentrum der Universität Hohenheim
UL http://opus.uni-hohenheim.de/volltexte/2020/1810