DP5871 Female Managers and their Wages in Central Europe
Author(s): | Stepan Jurajda, Teodora Paligorova |
Publication Date: | October 2006 |
Keyword(s): | gender pay gap, managers |
JEL(s): | J31, J71, P31 |
Programme Areas: | Labour Economics |
Link to this Page: | cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=5871 |
This paper examines the gender gaps in employment and wages among top- and lower-level managerial employees in a recent sample of Czech firms. Unlike the existing analyses of managerial gender pay gaps, we acknowledge the adverse consequences of the low and uneven representation of women for the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition and offer an alternative set of results based on a matching procedure. Only 7% of top-level Czech managers are women and their wages are about 20 percent lower even when compared only to their comparable male colleagues.