Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/232779 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 14027
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We present empirical evidence that large structural shocks are followed by changes in labor market inequality. Specifically, we study short-run fluctuations in adjusted gender wage gaps (unequal pay for equal work) following episodes of structural shocks in the labor markets, using several decades of individual data for a wide selection of transition countries. We find that for cohorts who entered the labor market after the onset of transition. Labor market shocks lead to significant declines in the gender wage gap. This decrease is driven mostly by episodes experienced among cohorts who enter the labor market during the transition. By contrast, we fail to find any significant relation for cohorts already active in the labor market at the time of transition. We provide plausible explanations based on sociological and economic theories of inequality.
Subjects: 
gender wage gap
transition
non-parametric estimates
worker flows
JEL: 
C24
J22
J31
J71
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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