@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp553,
            	author={Machin, Stephen and Puhani, Patrick A.},
            	title={Subject of Degree and the Gender Wage Differential: Evidence from the UK and Germany},
            	year={2002},
	month={Aug},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={553},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp553},
	abstract={We show that controlling for subject of degree explains a significant part of the male/female
gender wage differential amongst graduates. Using data from the labour force surveys of the
United Kingdom and Germany, we find similar results in these two countries: subject of
degree explains about 2-4 percent higher wages of male over female graduates after
controlling for age, industry, region, part-time and public sector employment. This is a
significant part (between 9 to 19 percent) of the overall male/female gender wage gap, and
an even larger amount of the part explained by factors entered into wage equations (at
around 20 to 29 percent of the explained component).
},
	keywords={field of major;gender wage gap},
            }