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The Gender Pay Gap in the Transition from Communism: Some Empirical Evidence
Newell, Andrew; Reilly, Barry - 2001
countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender pay gap has not exhibited, in general …This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist …, an upward tendency over the transitional period to which available data relate. Most of the gender pay gap is ascribed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262472
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The Distribution of Wages in Belarus
Verashchagina, Alina; Pastore, Francesco - 2004
This paper uncovers evidence on the distribution of wages in Belarus in the second half of the 1990s. The returns to education and work experience are high and stable, which is atypical for a transition country. This might be due to the pervasive role of the state in fixing wages in the dominant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261890
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Yuan and Roubles: Comparing Wage Determination in Urban China and Russia at the Beginning of the New Millennium
Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Li, Shi; Nivorozhkina, Ludmila; … - 2014
and is found to be similar across countries. As at the end of the 1980s, the gender wage gap is larger in Russia where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377367
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Yuan and Roubles: Comparing Wage Determination in Urban China and Russia at the Beginning of the New Millennium
Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Li, Shi; Nivorozhkina, Ludmila; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
and is found to be similar across countries. As at the end of the 1980s, the gender wage gap is larger in Russia where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884151
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Explaining rising returns to education in urban China in the 1990s
Liu, Xuejun; Park, Albert; Zhao, Yaohui - 2010
Although theory predicts that international trade will decrease the relative demand for skilled workers in relatively skill-deficit countries, in recent decades many developing countries have experienced rising wage premiums for skilled workers. We examines this puzzle by quantifying the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269848
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The Distribution of Wages in Poland, 1992-2002
Newell, Andrew; Socha, Mieczysław W. - 2005
This paper analyses the changes in the size distribution of wages in Poland over a decade of transition. Until about 1998 there were some forces tending to increase wage inequality and other forces contracting it. The result was a relatively constant level of inequality. Privatisation was the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271758
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Understanding urban wage inequality in China 1988 - 2008: Evidence from quantile analysis
Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - 2012
, industrial sector and province - have served to widened inequality. The gender gap continued to rise, as did the gap between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291330
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The Gender Pay Gap in the Transition from Communism: Some Empirical Evidence
Newell, Andrew; Reilly, Barry - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender pay gap has not exhibited, in general …This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist …, an upward tendency over the transitional period to which available data relate. Most of the gender pay gap is ascribed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761718
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The Gender Wage Gap across Life: Effects of Genetic Predisposition Towards Higher Educational Attainment
Bryson, Alex; Morris, Tim; Bann, David; Wilkinson, David - 2024
Using two polygenic scores (PGS) for educational attainment in a biomedical study of all those born in a single week in Great Britain in 1958 we show that the genetic predisposition for educational attainment is associated with labour market participation and wages over the life- course for men...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015097131
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Gender Differences in STEM Persistence after Graduation
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2022
happens once women complete a STEM degree? We use the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey to trace out gender differences in STEM … business sector and that this can partly explain the gender pay gap for STEM graduates. Overall, our results suggest that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351891