Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Title: Job Amenities and the Gender Pension Gap
Author-Name: Iris Kesternich
Author-Email: iris.kesternich@uni-hamburg.de
Author-Name: Marjolein Van Damme
Author-Email: marjolein.vandamme@kuleuven.be
Author-Name: Han Ye
Author-Email: han.ye@uni-mannheim.de

Classification-JEL: D91, J16, J26, J32
Keywords: gender, pension gap, amenities, work meaning, workplace flexibility, hypothetical choice experiment, salience, beliefs

Abstract: One reason gender pay gaps persist is that women receive more of their total compensation through
amenities. Since wages, but not amenities, increase retirement incomes, this may translate into
gender pension gaps. Using a discrete choice experiment we investigate whether the valuation for
amenities changes when the trade-off with pension income is made salient. We find that women
value amenities more than men. Beliefs about the effect of wage changes on pension income do
not show large gender differences. However, women change their choices much more strongly
than men when reminded about the effects of current choices on pension income.

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Length: 58
Creation-Date: 2024-10
Revision-Date: 2025-04
File-URL: https://www.crctr224.de/research/discussion-papers/archive/dp600
File-Format: application/pdf
Handle: RePEc:bon:boncrc:CRCTR224_2024_600v2