The Effect of Firm Size on Gender Wage Discrimination in the Netherlands

Despite the introduction of several restrictive regulations in the past decades, evidence of gender wage discrimination is still commonly found in the Netherlands. This study aims to create a better understanding of this phenomenon by linking it with the firm size-wage effect, a commonly observed relationship between firm size and wages. An extensive Mincerian wage equation is estimated using a generalized linear model with Huber-White standard errors on yearly panel data. The results indicate the existence of a significant interaction effect between the FSWE and gender wage discrimination in the Netherlands