The levelling effect of product market competition on gender wage discrimination

Table 1 Wages by sex and product market competition

	Women		Men
	Mean	Std. dev.	Mean	Std. dev.
*Full sample*
Gross daily wages (in €)	104.36	45.90	132.41	50.47
Log gross daily wages	4.55	0.44	4.82	0.38
Strong product market competition (dummy)	0.61	0.49	0.66	0.47
Codetermination-free plant (dummy)	0.10	0.30	0.06	0.24
Observations	305,876		1,239,911
Workers	166,759		627,076
Plants	6,114
*Plants facing weak product market competition*
Gross daily wages (in €)	99.00	43.86	126.10	48.77
Log gross daily wages	4.50	0.44	4.77	0.38
Codetermination-free plant (dummy)	0.14	0.35	0.09	0.29
Observations	120,176		424,971
*Plants facing strong product market competition*
Gross daily wages (in €)	107.83	46.84	135.70	51.02
Log gross daily wages	4.59	0.44	4.84	0.37
Codetermination-free plant (dummy)	0.07	0.25	0.04	0.20
Observations	185,700		814,940

Notes: LIAB cross-sectional model, West Germany, 2008–2010. Wages are deflated by the consumer price index. Strong product market competition refers to the highest category on a four-point Likert scale of a plant-level self-assessment of competition.