Wage Determination with Special Reference to Role in a Family

• Authors: Lenka Filipová , Zuzana Machová
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper has arisen as a part of the project dealing with the questions of measuring of wage determinants and wage discrimination on the basis of different subjective requirements of women and men on their wages. Using the ordered-response model (Ordered Probit), it analysed wage determination on the basis of Mincer's Wage Regression including dummies for role in a family. The analysis was carried out with the total sample of respondents and subsequently separately for men and women. The data were gained from a questionnaire survey carried out in Ostrava city, Czech Republic. In general, the analysis did not prove previous conclusions of theories or empirical studies about prevailing influence of family characteristics on the wage rate. Nevertheless, it proved statistically significant differences in the wage determination between men and women, and showed that in the case of men, some family characteristics may have been important for determining the wages.

Keywords

EN

Human Capital; Role in a Family; Wage Determinants; Wage Discrimination

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Review of Economic Perspectives
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 37-56

Dates

published

2011-01-01

online

2011-04-06

Contributors

author

Lenka Filipová

• Faculty of Economics, VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava, Sokolská třída 33, 701 21 Ostrava 1

author

Zuzana Machová

• Faculty of Economics, VŠB - Technical University of Ostrava, Sokolská třída 33, 701 21 Ostrava 1

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10135-011-0006-y