THE DANISH GENDER WAGE GAP IN THE 1980S - A PANEL-DATA STUDY

In Denmark the equal pay act was put into force in 1976, but the relat ive pay of female workers is still considerably below the level of mal e workers in most occupational and educational groups, and the decline of the aggregate gender wage gap seems to have stagnated since the la te 1970s. In this study different explanations of this evidence are in vestigated empirically based on the estimation of a human capital mode l on a panel sample of Danish wage earners observed during the period 1979-90.