Gender Wage Gap in Poland – Can It Be Explained by Differences in Observable Characteristics?

• Authors: Karolina Goraus , Joanna Tyrowicz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The raw gender wage gap over the period 1995-2012 amounts to app. 9% of hourly wage and is fairly stable. However, the raw gap does not account for differences in endowments between genders. In fact, the adjusted wage gap amounts to as much as 20% on average over the analysed period and shows some cyclical properties. The estimates of adjusted gender wage gap do not seem to exhibit any long-term trends, which suggest that in general neither demographic changes nor the progressing transition underlie the phenomenon of unequal pay for the same work among men and women.

Keywords

EN

wage gap; discrimination; decomposition; Oaxaca-Blinder; Ñopo; non-parametric estimation

• Publisher: Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Ekonomia. Rynek, Gospodarka, Społeczeństwo
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 36
• Pages: 125-148

Contributors

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Karolina Goraus

• Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw

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Joanna Tyrowicz

• Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw, Economic Institute, National Bank of Poland