scholarly journals Inter-Industry Wage Differentials and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from European Countries

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda Gannon ◽  
Robert Plasman ◽  
François Rycx ◽  
Ilan Tojerow
Keyword(s):  
Wage Differentials ◽  
Gender Wage Gap ◽  
Wage Gap ◽  
European Countries

Interindustry Wage Differentials and the Gender Wage Gap

ILR Review ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Fields ◽  
Edward N. Wolff
Keyword(s):  
Population Survey ◽  
Wage Differentials ◽  
Gender Wage Gap ◽  
Wage Gap ◽  
Female Worker ◽  
Industry Effects ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Female Workers ◽  
Highly Correlated ◽  
Using Data

Using data from the March 1988 Current Population Survey, the authors find that the wages of female workers differ significantly by industry, even when the analysis controls for workers' productivity-related characteristics. Although these interindustry wage differentials are at least as large as men's and are highly correlated with them as well, there are statistically significant differences between the two. Of the overall gender wage gap (the average female worker earns about 65% as much as the average male worker), 12–22% can be explained by differences between the patterns of interindustry wage differentials of men and women and 15–19% by differences in the distribution of male and female workers across industries. Thus, the combined industry effects explain about one-third of the overall gender wage gap.

Part-time employment, the gender wage gap and the role of wage-setting institutions: Evidence from 11 European countries

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleonora Matteazzi ◽  
Ariane Pailhé ◽  
Anne Solaz
Keyword(s):  
Gender Gap ◽  
Gender Wage Gap ◽  
Wage Gap ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Wage Setting ◽  
Wage Penalty ◽  
Pay Gap ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Part Time

We examine how far the over-representation of women in part-time jobs can explain the gender gap in hourly earnings, and also investigate how far wage-setting institutions are correlated with the overall gender wage gap and the female part-time wage gap. Using European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) 2009 data for 11 European countries, we implement a double decomposition of the gender wage gap: between men and women employed full-time and between full-time and part-time working women. This shows that the wage penalty of women employed part-time occurs mainly through the segregation of part-time jobs, but the full-time gender pay gap remains mostly unexplained. At the macro level, the gender wage gap tends to be higher in countries where part-time employment is more widespread. Some wage-setting institutions seem to reduce the female full-time/part-time pay gap and the gender gap among full-time workers.

scholarly journals The Gender Wage Gap in Switzerland over Time

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 442-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Flurina Schmid
Keyword(s):  
Wage Differentials ◽  
Gender Wage Gap ◽  
Wage Gap ◽  
Occupational Segregation ◽  
Part Time ◽  
Female Employees ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Gender Wage Differentials ◽  
Over Time

Abstracts This article analyzes the gender wage gap in Switzerland, using data from the Swiss Household Panel. The results show that women in Switzerland earn still less than men with the same endowments. One of the main reasons for this gap is occupational segregation: women and men working in femaledominated occupations have lower wages than those in integrated and male-dominated occupations. In order to have equally distributed job categories, 40% of the male or female employees would need to change jobs. But the “preferences” for jobs between genders seem to have been frozen for decades. The gender wage gap is particularly large within part-time employees working below 50%. Younger cohorts, however, seem less exposed to gender wage differentials.

Do Mediterraneans really do it better? Explaining the lower gender wage gap in southern European countries

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-132
Author(s):  
Ricardo Alaez-Aller ◽  
Juan Carlos Longas-Garcia ◽  
Miren Ullibarri-Arce
Keyword(s):  
Gender Wage Gap ◽  
Wage Gap ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Southern European Countries

The gender wage gap in the workplace: Does the age of the firm matter?

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewa Cukrowska-Torzewska ◽  
Iga Magda
Keyword(s):  
Wage Inequality ◽  
Gender Wage Gap ◽  
Wage Gap ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Gender Pay Gap ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Pay Gap ◽  
Central European ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
Gender Wage Inequality

We contribute to the literature on firm-level determinants of gender wage inequality by studying the link between a firm’s age and the size of its gender pay gap. Using European Structure of Earnings data for eight European countries, we find that in all these countries, the gender wage gaps are smallest in the youngest firms. Our results also show that in Central European countries, the size of the gender pay gap clearly increases with the age of the company; whereas in the older EU member states such link is not as apparent. Levels of gender wage inequality appear to be highest in companies that were previously state owned but were privatized during the transition. We interpret our findings with the support of competition and monopsony theories.

Inter-Industry Wage Differentials and the Gender Wage Gap: An Identification Problem

ILR Review ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 611 ◽  
Author(s):  
William C. Horrace ◽  
Ronald L. Oaxaca
Keyword(s):  
Wage Differentials ◽  
Gender Wage Gap ◽  
Wage Gap ◽  
Identification Problem
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