Gender Segregation Within Firms: Causes and Consequences

Inna Maltseva and Daria Nesterova

Chapter 5 in In the Grip of Transition: Economic and Social Consequences of Restructuring in Russia and Ukraine, 2012, pp 128-155 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In this chapter we study the sources of gender segregation within firms and their effect on the gender wage gap. Compared to numerous papers devoted to gender segregation, this research is based on unique personnel data from one Russian industrial firm for the period from 2002 to 2006. We show that the emergence and the fixing of segregated employment structures can be explained, first, by initial job assignments and, secondly, by gender differences in promotion paths for male and female workers. Estimates of the gender wage gap allow us to conclude that it is largely driven by a gender segregation of job positions and hierarchical levels, rather than by workers’ characteristics.

Keywords: Male Worker; Gender Segregation; Glass Ceiling; Internal Labour Market; Affiliate Firm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230363595_6

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