The Gender Pay Gap in the Transition from Communism: Some Empirical Evidence

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This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender pay gap has not exhibited, in general, an upward tendency over the transitional period to which available data relate. Most of the gender pay gap is ascribed to the ?unexplained? component using conventional decompositions and this may partly be attributable to the proxy measure for labour force experience used in this study. Quantile regression analysis indicates that, in all but one country, the ceteris paribus gender pay gap rises as we move up the wage distribution.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 268

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials ; Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Factor and Product Markets; Industry Studies; Population
• Subject: Gender ; pay ; transition ; quantile regression ; Lohndifferenzierung ; Geschlecht ; Übergangswirtschaft ; Frauenarbeitslohn ; Einkommensverteilung ; Schätzung ; Osteuropa

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Newell, Andrew ; Reilly, Barry
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2001

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/21119
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET