Table 6 OLS hourly earnings regressions, men and women separately a
From: Why is there a gender earnings gap in self-employment? A decomposition analysis with German data
dependent variable: logarithm of gross hourly earnings | Self-employed | Paid employees | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
male | female | male | female | |
Formal education (reference: no vocational degree) | ||||
No vocational degree & FHR/Abitur (dummy) | −0.075 (0.184) | −0.062 (0.274) | 0.079* (0.042) | −0.068* (0.040) |
Vocational training (dummy) | 0.043 (0.154) | −0.029 (0.212) | 0.157*** (0.023) | 0.047** (0.023) |
Vocational training & FHR/Abitur (dummy) | −0.020 (0.165) | 0.159 (0.234) | 0.200*** (0.028) | 0.110*** (0.026) |
Vocational college (“Fachschule”) (dummy) | −0.011 (0.159) | 0.202 (0.251) | 0.198*** (0.027) | 0.115*** (0.032) |
University or university of applied science (dummy) | 0.065 (0.161) | 0.254 (0.227) | 0.360*** (0.027) | 0.201*** (0.026) |
Working experience (in years) | 0.004 (0.007) | −0.001 (0.016) | 0.026*** (0.002) | 0.022*** (0.002) |
Working experience squared | −0.00004 (0.0001) | 0.0001 (0.0003) | −0.0004*** (0.00004) | −0.0003*** (0.00004) |
Working intermissions (in years) | −0.049** (0.021) | −0.010 (0.017) | −0.021*** (0.004) | −0.015*** (0.003) |
Working intermissions squared | 0.001 (0.002) | −0.00003 (0.001) | 0.001*** (0.0002) | 0.0004*** (0.0001) |
Tenure at current job (in years) | 0.026*** (0.008) | 0.038*** (0.013) | 0.016*** (0.002) | 0.017*** (0.002) |
Tenure at current job squared | −0.0005** (0.0002) | −0.001 (0.0004) | −0.0004*** (0.0001) | −0.0004*** (0.0001) |
Number of changes of profession | −0.022* (0.011) | −0.017 (0.023) | −0.008*** (0.002) | −0.014*** (0.003) |
working time flexibility (reference: never) | ||||
Sometimes (dummy) | 0.057 (0.084) | 0.327** (0.159) | 0.053*** (0.018) | 0.071*** (0.020) |
Often (dummy) | 0.199** (0.085) | 0.459*** (0.152) | 0.094*** (0.018) | 0.086*** (0.020) |
Family background (reference: single and no young children) | ||||
Life partner (dummy) | 0.119** (0.052) | −0.119 (0.080) | 0.051*** (0.009) | 0.002 (0.009) |
Young children (dummy) | 0.717 (0.502) | −0.765* (0.448) | 0.071 (0.092) | 0.042 (0.032) |
Life partner and young children (interaction effect) | −0.662 (0.507) | 0.932** (0.464) | −0.031 (0.093) | −0.031 (0.036) |
High career aspirations (dummy) | 0.024 (0.044) | 0.012 (0.080) | −0.012 (0.009) | −0.017* (0.009) |
Professional field (54 dummies) | Yes*** | Yes*** | Yes*** | Yes*** |
Tasks occurring at work (17 dummies) | Yes*** | Yes*** | Yes*** | Yes*** |
Firm size (reference: 5–9 employees) | ||||
1 employee (dummy) | −0.014 (0.067) | −0.093 (0.147) | 0.133* (0.076) | −0.129 (0.081) |
2 employees (dummy) | −0.076 (0.079) | 0.017 (0.166) | −0.023 (0.054) | −0.084* (0.050) |
3-4 employees (dummy) | −0.055 (0.076) | 0.134 (0.159) | 0.027 (0.032) | −0.027 (0.023) |
10-19 employees (dummy) | 0.079 (0.089) | 0.042 (0.181) | 0.051** (0.022) | 0.045** (0.018) |
20-49 employees (dummy) | 0.236** (0.113) | −0.043 (0.234) | 0.102*** (0.021) | 0.076*** (0.017) |
50-99 employees (dummy) | 0.157 (0.222) | −0.471* (0.262) | 0.104*** (0.022) | 0.104*** (0.018) |
100 employees and more (dummy) | 0.405* (0.213) | −0.184 (0.281) | 0.207*** (0.020) | 0.183*** (0.016) |
Constant | 1.921*** (0.284) | 0.863 (0.536) | 1.673*** (0.059) | 1.620*** (0.076) |
Number of observations | 974 | 497 | 7,094 | 6,887 |
R2 | 0.38 | 0.41 | 0.48 | 0.47 |