Gender Wage Differences in Czech Public Healthcare : Results from the Selected Hospital

The aim of the study is to estimate the unexplained gender pay gap in the individual departments of the selected hospital, to find out whether these vary between the individual departments and if so, to identify the possible causes of these differences. We systematically examined the gender wage differences within one occupation. To estimate the unexplained part of the gender pay gap, we used the average treatment effect on the treated (ATT) and to identify the causes of the possible differences in the unexplained gender pay gap, we used the linear regression model. We found that the ATT varies significantly between the individual departments. To explain these differences, we used the selected characteristics of the departments: department size, proportion of women and gender of the department head. We came to the conclusion that the wages of women increase relatively to the male wage with a growth in the proportion of female orderlies together with a female head of department. Separately, it has not been proven that the unexplained gender wage gap tends to be lower in departments of smaller size