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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2008
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
Budapest Working Papers on the Labour Market No. BWP - 2008/4
Verlag: 
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics, Budapest
Zusammenfassung: 
The overall gender wage gap fell from .31 to .15 between 1986 and 2003 following the transition to a free market in Hungary. During the same time period, firms faced increased competition from both new domestic and foreign firms due to the rapid liberalization measures implemented by the government. Becker's (1957) model of employer taste discrimination implies that employers that discriminate against women may be forced out of the market by competition in the long run, leading to a fall in the gender wage gap. I test this implication using data from the Hungarian Wage and Earnings Survey covering 1986-2003. I estimate the effect of variation in various measures of product market competition, including trade variables, on the within-firm endowment-adjusted gender wage gap, making use of the fact that I am able to follow firms over time. The estimates show a significant negative relationship between product market competition and the within-firm gender wage gap.
Schlagwörter: 
Transitional labor market
wage differentials
gender discrimination
JEL: 
J31
J71
P20
ISBN: 
978-963-9796-18-8
Dokumentart: 
Working Paper

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