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Title: Does Market Liberalization Reduce Gender Discrimination? Econometric Evidence from Hungary, 1986-98

Author(s): Nauro F. Campos and Dean Jolliffe

Publication Date: April 2004

Keyword(s): discrimination, education, gender, hungary, transition and wage gap

Programme Area(s): Institutions and Economic Performance, Labour Economics and Transition Economics

Abstract: An alleged achievement of socialism was gender equality in the labour market. Has its collapse shattered this accomplishment? The theoretical literature and attendant empirical evidence are inconclusive. Using data for 2.9 million wage earners in Hungary we find that the male/female difference in log wages declined from 0.31 to 0.19 between 1986 and 1998 and that this is largely explained by a matching decline in ?Oaxaca's discrimination,? suggesting extraordinary improvement of women?s relative situation. Further, we find that variation over time in the wage gaps is associated with public and large firms having progressively smaller gaps than their counterparts.

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Campos, N and Jolliffe, D. 2004. 'Does Market Liberalization Reduce Gender Discrimination? Econometric Evidence from Hungary, 1986-98'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=4350