We compare the importance of occupational gender segregation for the gender wage gap in East and West Germany in 1995 using a sample of social-security wage records of full-time workers. East Germany, which features a somewhat higher degree of occupational segregation, has a gender wage gap on...

In this paper we examine occupational and firm-level sex segregation and their relationship with wages in West Germany and in East Germany, where anti-discrimination policies were recently implemented. We employ a representative sample of social-security wage records from 1992 and 1995,...