Gender Pay Gap - Application in the Specific Enterprise

Hedija Veronika and Musil Petr
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Hedija Veronika: Department of Economic Studies, College of Polytechnics Jihlava, Tolstého 16, 586 01 Jihlava, Czech Republic
Musil Petr: Department of Economic Studies, College of Polytechnics Jihlava, Tolstého 16, 586 01 Jihlava, Czech Republic

Review of Economic Perspectives, 2011, vol. 11, issue 4, 223-236

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: gender; gender pay gap; gender wage discrimination; Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition; wage differences; gender; gender pay gap; gender wage discrimination; Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition; wage differences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.2478/v10135-011-0014-y

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