Hägglund Anna Erika
INVEST Research Flagship Centre, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland.
Soc Sci Res. 2024 Aug;122:103029. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2024.103029. Epub 2024 Jul 22.
Men and women's diverging fields of study choices contribute to the gender wage gap among highly educated workers in several countries, yet systematic cross-national comparisons are rare. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, the German Microcensus, and Statistics Finland this study explores whether fields of study shape the gender wage gap differently in Germany than in Finland; two countries that display strong linkages between education and employment, but differ in the generosity of family policies. The results show that fields of study are an important source of gender wage disparities in both countries. In Germany, associations between characteristics of fields and wages do not seem to differ between the genders. In Finland, the findings suggest that women profit more than men from fields with strong linkages to occupations. Our findings highlight that research analyzing the association between fields of study and gender inequality needs to consider institutional features and gender-specific patterns.
在一些国家，男性和女性不同的专业选择领域导致了高学历劳动者中的性别工资差距，但系统的跨国比较却很少见。本研究利用德国社会经济面板研究、德国微观人口普查和芬兰统计局的数据，探讨专业领域在德国和芬兰对性别工资差距的影响是否不同；这两个国家在教育与就业之间存在紧密联系，但家庭政策的慷慨程度有所不同。结果表明，专业领域是两国性别工资差距的一个重要来源。在德国，专业领域特征与工资之间的关联在性别上似乎没有差异。在芬兰，研究结果表明，与职业联系紧密的专业领域中，女性比男性受益更多。我们的研究结果强调，分析专业领域与性别不平等之间关联的研究需要考虑制度特征和特定性别的模式。
