Finanskrisen och lönegapet mellan män och kvinnor i USA

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the 2008 financial crisis had any impact on the total pay gap between men and women in the United States. Using micro data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) from 2006 and 2014, new empirical evidence is provided of how wage differences develop during a time of recession. The total gender wage gap, which is an indication of economic inequality, is divided into a declared and an unexplained part. It explains sharing controls for the relevant attributes of the labor market that vary between individuals, for example, work experience and education. The unexplained part of the total wage gap is the one that indicates the function of discrimination. With the help of Mincer's wage equation and Oaxaca- Blinder decomposition, the explained and unexplained wage gap for the two reference groups, men and women, is analyzed. The result showed that the total salary gap has decreased after the financial crisis, but that the unexplained portion has increased.