Gender Pay Gap – Application in the Specific Enterprise
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2011/4
The paper analyzes the size of the gender pay gap (GPG) in the specific enterprise. The goal of the paper is to identify factors which could explain a possible wage difference between men and women, and to find out if there exists a wage discrimination of women or not. In order to estimate the discrimination, part of the GPG was used with the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition. The authors conclude that wage discrimination of women really exists here. Different characteristics of men and women explain only – 16.5% to 6.2% of GPG. The rest of the GPG can be labelled (with a bit of simplification) as the effect of discrimination.
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Pages:
223–236
DOI:
10.2478/v10135-009-0003-6
JEL:
J24, J16
Keywords:
wage differences, Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, gender wage discrimination, gender pay gap, gender
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