Although the low-wage employment sector has enlarged over the past 20 years in the context of pronounced flexibility in restructured labor markets, gender differences in low-wage employment have declined in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In this article, the authors examine reasons for declining gender inequalities, and most notably concentrate on explanations for the closing gender gap in low-wage employment risks. In addition, they identify differences and similarities among the German-speaking countries. Based on regression techniques and decomposition analyses (1996-2016), the authors find significantly decreasing labor market risks for the female workforce. Detailed analysis reveals that (1) the concrete positioning in the labor market shows greater importance in explaining declining gender differences compared to personal characteristics. (2) The changed composition of the labor markets has prevented the low-wage sector from increasing even more in general and works in favor of the female workforce and their low-wage employment risks in particular.

尽管在过去的20年中，在重组的劳动力市场具有显着灵活性的情况下，低薪就业部门有所扩大，但德国，奥地利和瑞士的低薪就业性别差异有所减少。在本文中，作者研究了导致性别不平等减少的原因，最主要的是集中在解释低薪就业风险中性别差距的缩小。此外，它们还确定了德语国家之间的差异和相似之处。基于回归技术和分解分析（1996-2016年），作者发现女性劳动力的劳动力市场风险显着降低。详细的分析表明，（1）劳动力市场中的具体定位在解释与个人特征相比正在减少的性别差异方面具有更大的重要性。