Gender Pay Gap - Application in the Specific Enterprise

• Authors: Veronika Hedija , Petr Musil
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper analyzes the size of the gender pay gap (GPG) in the specific enterprise. The goal of the paper is to identify factors which could explain a possible wage difference between men and women, and to find out if there exists a wage discrimination of women or not. In order to estimate the discrimination, part of the GPG was used with the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition. The authors conclude that wage discrimination of women really exists here. Different characteristics of men and women explain only - 16.5% to 6.2% of GPG. The rest of the GPG can be labelled (with a bit of simplification) as the effect of discrimination.

Keywords

EN

gender; gender pay gap; gender wage discrimination; Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition; wage differences

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Review of Economic Perspectives
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 223-236

Dates

published

2011-01-01

online

2012-01-13

Contributors

author

Veronika Hedija

• Department of Economic Studies, College of Polytechnics Jihlava, Tolstého 16, 586 01 Jihlava, Czech Republic

author

Petr Musil

• Department of Economic Studies, College of Polytechnics Jihlava, Tolstého 16, 586 01 Jihlava, Czech Republic

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10135-011-0014-y