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Title: Gender Wage Gap and Segregation in Late Transition

Author(s): Stepan Jurajda

Publication Date: September 2001

Keyword(s): employment segregation and gender wage gap

Programme Area(s): Transition Economics

Abstract: Transition countries hoping to join the European Union are in the process of introducing western-type anti-discrimination policies aimed at reducing the gender wage gap. The efficacy of these policies depends on the relative size of those elements of the gap they target; therefore, it is important to quantify these parts. In this Paper, large matched employer-employee data sets from the Czech Republic and Slovakia are used to provide such detailed gender wage gap decomposition. The results, based on 1998 data, suggest that various forms of employment segregation are related to over one third of the overall pay difference between genders in both countries. In the non-public sector, however, almost two thirds of the total gap remains attributable to the individual?s sex, suggesting much of the gap is due to violations of the equal pay policy.

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Jurajda, S. 2001. 'Gender Wage Gap and Segregation in Late Transition'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=2952