Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/125607 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Citation: 
[Journal:] IZA Journal of European Labor Studies [ISSN:] 2193-9012 [Volume:] 4 [Issue:] 10 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Heidelberg [Year:] 2015 [Pages:] 1-27
Publisher: 
Springer, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
In Romania, the communist regime promoted an official policy of gender equality for more than 40 years, providing equal access to education and employment and restricting pay differentiation based on gender. After its fall in December 1989, the promotion of equal opportunities and treatment for men and women did not constitute a priority for any governments of the 1990s. This paper analyzes both gender and occupational wage gaps before and during the first years of the transition to a market economy and finds that the communist institutions did succeed in eliminating the gender wage differences in female- and male-dominated occupations but not in gender-integrated occupations. During both regimes, wage differences were, in general, much higher among workers of the same gender working in different occupations than between men and women working in the same occupational group, and women experienced a larger variation in occupational wage differentials than men.
Subjects: 
Romania
Transition
Female- and male-dominated occupations
Gender wage gap
Occupational wage gap
JEL: 
J24
J31
J71
J78
P26
P27
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Document Type: 
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