TY - RPRT AU - Grund, Christian TI - Gender Pay Gaps among Highly Educated Professionals: Compensation Components Do Matter PY - 2014/Apr/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 8112 UR - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp8112 AB - Making use of panel data from a survey of highly educated professionals, gender pay gaps are explored with regard to total compensation as well as to individual compensation components. The results indicate meaningful male-female wage differentials for this quite homogeneous group of people working in one specific industry: in particular for more experienced employees in higher positions of firm hierarchies with children. Gender pay gaps are much more pronounced for bonus payments than they are for fixed salaries. KW - gender wage gap KW - fixed salaries KW - bonus payments KW - management compensation ER -