Wage Differentials in EU Transition Economies (2009-2016): How Large a Penalty for Females and Informal Employees?

Philippe Adair and Oksana Nezhyvenko

No 10913129, Proceedings of Economics and Finance Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences

Abstract: The paper tackles the wage differentials issue upon a large sample of employees in eight EU transition countries over 2009-2016 with respect to human capital theory vs. labour market segmentation theory and according to gender. Using several measurement methods, the results display a significant penalty in average real monthly wages for informal employees, which is always higher for females; hence, informal female employees face a double penalty. In regard of individual and job characteristics, earnings functions investigate the wage penalty for informality, which declines respectively to 20 per cent and 12 per cent for males, and 27 per cent and 17 per cent for female employees. Next, fixed effects model demonstrates that wage penalty reaches 23 per cent for females and over 10 per cent for males. Last, according to the decomposition model, explained variables (individual and job characteristics) account for two-thirds of the wage differentials, which prove better explained on the demand side of firms and supports the segmentation theory.

Keywords: Decomposition model; EU-SILC; informal employment; Mincer model; panel data; quantile regression; transition economy; wage differentials (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E26 J16 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2020-07
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Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 13th Economics & Finance Conference, Prague, Jul 2020, pages 1-22

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