Do Female Managers Help to Lower Within-Firm Gender Pay Gaps? Public Institutions vs. Private Enterprises

Iga Magda and Ewa Cukrowska-Torzewska

No 12026, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We analyze the link between the presence of female managers and the size of the firm-level gender pay gap, looking separately at the private and public sector. Using a large linked employer-employee dataset for Poland and a non-parametric and parametric decompositions, we find that higher presence of female managers is associated with more pay advantage towards women in selected types of public sector units: the ones in which remunerations of women and men are already equal, and a large share of the workforce is tertiary-educated. The effects are, however, relatively small in size. In private establishments, lower gender wage inequality is associated with higher shares of female workers, but not female managers.

Keywords: Ñopo decomposition; female managers; public sector; wage inequalities; gender wage gap; Oaxaca- Blinder decomposition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J31 J45 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2018-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-gen and nep-hrm
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Published - published as 'Do Women Managers Lower Gender Pay Gaps? Evidence from Public and Private Firms' in: Feminist Economics, 2019, 25 (4), 185 - 210

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