The levelling effect of product market competition on gender wage discrimination

Table 5 Wage regressions by worker codetermination

	(1)	(2)	(3)
	OLS	Plant–sex fixed effects	Match fixed effects
*Plants with some worker codetermination*
Strong product market competition	−0.0092	−0.0073*	−0.0077
	(0.0072)	(0.0043)	(0.0049)
Female × strong product market competition	−0.0002	0.0010	−0.0006
	(0.0066)	(0.0034)	(0.0037)
Female	−0.1471***
	(0.0035)
Observations	1,442,439
*Codetermination-free plants*
Strong product market competition	−0.0320***	−0.0152**	−0.0187**
	(0.0111)	(0.0075)	(0.0087)
Female × strong product market competition	0.0209*	0.0116*	0.0176**
	(0.0127)	(0.0067)	(0.0080)
Female	−0.2227***
	(0.0250)
Observations	103,348

Notes: LIAB cross-sectional model, West Germany, 2008–2010. The regressand is the log gross daily wage. Standard errors in parentheses are clustered at the plant level. ***/**/* denotes statistical significance at the 1/5/10 per cent level. Regressors are those listed in Table 4.