Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/21119 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 268
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender pay gap has not exhibited, in general, an upward tendency over the transitional period to which available data relate. Most of the gender pay gap is ascribed to the ?unexplained? component using conventional decompositions and this may partly be attributable to the proxy measure for labour force experience used in this study. Quantile regression analysis indicates that, in all but one country, the ceteris paribus gender pay gap rises as we move up the wage distribution.
Subjects: 
Gender
pay
transition
quantile regression
JEL: 
J16
J31
P23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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