TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Machin, Stephen
AU  - Puhani, Patrick A.
        TI  - Subject of Degree and the Gender Wage Differential: Evidence from the UK and Germany
        PY  - 2002/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 553
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp553
        AB  - 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).

        KW  - field of major
KW  - gender wage gap
        ER  -