Gender Wage Differentials in Greece

Evangelia Papapetrou ()
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Evangelia Papapetrou: Bank of Greece and University of Athens

Economic Bulletin, 2004, issue 23, 47-64

Abstract: The paper studies the existence of wage differentials between male and female employees in Greece employing quantile regession analysis techniques and applying a variant of the selection-adjusted Oaxaca and Ransom (1994) decomposition method to explain the components of the wage differentials. The results suggest that, in Greece, differences in wages between men and women can be identified. Decomposing the wage gap between genders, the results show that the difference in wages is attributed mainly to the unexplained part and to a lesser extent to the employee’s characteristics. In all deciles of the wage distribution, wage differentials between genders are not explained by differences in the productive characteristics of the employed but rather they constitute the unexplained part of the wage differential.

Keywords: gender; wage; differentials (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J7 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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