TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Pineda-Hernández, Kevin
AU  - Rycx, François
AU  - Volral, Mélanie
AU  - Waroquier, Alexandre
        TI  - Do Firms Share their Profits Equally with Women and Men?  The Role of Human Capital, Managerial Positions and Unions
        PY  - 2026/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 18388
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp18388
        AB  - While rent-sharing is known to vary according to worker characteristics, the impact of profits on the gender wage gap warrants closer examination. Most studies adopt a single-gender view, neglecting factors tied to bargaining power. Our paper aims to fill this gap using Belgian matched employer-employee data from 1999 to 2016 and by examining whether the relationship between rent-sharing and gender depends on variables reflecting bargaining power, i.e. education, study field, tenure, occupation and wage agreement. Accounting for many covariates and addressing potential endogeneity issues, we find a wage-profit elasticity of 2.8%, which does not differ statistically between women and men. Our results further indicate that firms share more of their profits with workers who have greater bargaining power, as assessed by our moderators. This result holds overall for both women and men, so that the price effect associated with rent-sharing is generally insignificant in explaining the gender wage gap. Conversely, given that women, regardless of their bargaining power, tend to be employed in less profitable firms than their male counterparts, the quantity effect associated with rent-sharing appears to play a non-negligible role.
        KW  - rent-sharing
KW  - linked employer-employee data
KW  - wage decompositions
KW  - instrumental variables
KW  - gender wage gap
KW  - bargaining power
        ER  -