%0 Report
        %A Machin, Stephen
%A Puhani, Patrick A.
        %T Subject of Degree and the Gender Wage Differential: Evidence from the UK and Germany
        %D 2002
        %8 2002 Aug
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 553
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp553
        %X 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).

        %K field of major
%K gender wage gap