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estimate the gender wage gap in European emerging markets. A meta-synthesis of collected estimates exhibits that the gender … the gender wage gap in countries with EU membership is lower than that in non-EU member states and, nevertheless, the wage …
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This discussion paper describes the extent of social inequalities both within and between the countries of the European Union. In the first three chapters we address the micro level of individual life courses: education, employment and income. The following chapters analyse the societal...
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This paper performs a meta-analysis of 1472 estimates extracted from 199 previous studies to investigate the gender … wage gap in China. The results show that, although the gender wage gap in China during the transition period has an impact … public sector. Furthermore, we found that, in China, the gender wage gap has been increasing rapidly in recent years. …
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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 …
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Ein erklärtes Ziel der deutschen Wirtschaftspolitik direkt nach der deutschen Vereinigung bestand in einer möglichst schnellen Angleichung der innerdeutschen Lebensverhältnisse. Die persönlichen Bruttoeinkommen der Ost- und Westdeutschen haben sich in den ersten zehn Jahren tatsächlich...
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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...
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and is found to be similar across countries. As at the end of the 1980s, the gender wage gap is larger in Russia where …
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This paper looks at the gender wage gap throughout the transition from communism to capitalism and throughout a time of … participation for women. Although the regime was formally egalitarian, the gender attitudes were conservative and the raw gender … wage gap was as large as 41% at the end of the communist period in Estonia. The large gender wage gap under communist rule …
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This paper examines the changes in the inter-industry wage structure experienced by Russia since 1993, as part of its transition from a plan-based economy to a more "market oriented" structure. Using two Russian household panel data sets, the RLMS and the RUSSET, we find that since the...
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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...
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