Abstract This paper analyzes the gender wage gap across the wage distribution using 2010 data from the German Statistical Agency. I investigate East and West Germany and the public sector separately to account for potential heterogeneities in wage gaps. I apply unconditional and conditional quantile regression methods to investigate the differences between highly paid men and women in distributions conditional and unconditional on covariates. The results indicate increasing gender wage gaps in all estimations, suggesting that there is indeed a glass ceiling over Germany even after controlling for a large set of observable characteristics (including occupation and industry). This finding is even more pronounced when also taking bonus payments into account.

中文翻译：

---

德国有玻璃天花板吗？

摘要本文使用德国统计局的2010年数据分析了整个工资分配中的性别工资差距。我分别调查东德和西德以及公共部门，以解释工资差距中的潜在异质性。我使用无条件和有条件分位数回归方法来调查高薪男女在协变量的有条件和无条件分布上的差异。结果表明，所有估计中的性别工资差距都在增加，这表明即使在控制了一系列可观察到的特征（包括职业和工业）之后，德国的确存在玻璃天花板。当还考虑奖金支付时，这一发现更加明显。