Table 2 Descriptive statistics
From: The levelling effect of product market competition on gender wage discrimination
Women | Men | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean | Std. dev. | Mean | Std. dev. | |
Potential experience (years) | 22.0 | 11.5 | 23.8 | 10.2 |
Tenure (years) | 10.7 | 8.6 | 13.2 | 9.3 |
Tenure censored (dummy) | 0.023 | 0.151 | 0.031 | 0.173 |
Apprenticeship, no Abitur (dummy) | 0.600 | 0.490 | 0.674 | 0.469 |
No apprenticeship, Abitur (dummy) | 0.021 | 0.142 | 0.010 | 0.102 |
Apprenticeship, Abitur (dummy) | 0.100 | 0.300 | 0.044 | 0.206 |
Technical college degree (dummy) | 0.040 | 0.195 | 0.070 | 0.255 |
University degree (dummy) | 0.071 | 0.257 | 0.086 | 0.280 |
Non-German nationality (dummy) | 0.069 | 0.254 | 0.074 | 0.261 |
Share of female workers | 0.399 | 0.239 | 0.211 | 0.159 |
Share of lowly qualified workers | 0.231 | 0.247 | 0.192 | 0.223 |
Works council (dummy) | 0.813 | 0.390 | 0.885 | 0.319 |
Collective bargaining at firm level (dummy) | 0.148 | 0.355 | 0.165 | 0.371 |
Collective bargaining at sector level (dummy) | 0.645 | 0.478 | 0.704 | 0.457 |
Exporting activity (dummy) | 0.607 | 0.488 | 0.767 | 0.423 |
New production technology (dummy) | 0.837 | 0.370 | 0.840 | 0.366 |
Plant in rural area (dummy) | 0.177 | 0.382 | 0.173 | 0.378 |
Plant size (number of workers) | 5,420 | 11,967 | 8,610 | 15,100 |
Observations | 305,876 | 1,239,911 | ||