Abstract

Tasks defined as activities that individuals have to perform in a specific occupation get more and more important in analysing different research questions. The most common application is the Task-Based-Approach which explains the rising wage inequality in many industrialised countries by a change of tasks. In our paper, we want to analyse the gender wage gap taking into account tasks: women perform different occupational tasks compared with men, e.g., women carry out more interactive non-routine and cognitive routine tasks. We employ a new task operationalisation based on the expert database BERUFENET for Germany and a sample of individuals that are in unsubsidised and regular employment in 2010. We use standard decomposition methods and the usual set of covariates to analyse to what extent tasks can explain the gender wage gap. Furthermore, we try to apply new data on working hours to consider the gender wage gap not only for full-time employees, but also for part-time employees based on hourly wages.