This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist … countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender pay gap has not exhibited, in general …, an upward tendency over the transitional period to which available data relate. Most of the gender pay gap is ascribed to …

the transition period 1992-2001. Wage dispersion has generally been rising. The increase occurred predominantly in the … lower part of the wage distribution for women and in the upper part for men. Sectoral transition affected women to a much … larger extent than men. A sequential decomposition analysis using quantile regressions reveals that changes in industry …

the transition period 1992-2001. Wage dispersion has generally been rising. The increase occurred predominantly in the … lower part of the wage distribution for women and in the upper part for men. Sectoral transition affected women to a much … larger extent than men. A sequential decomposition analysis using quantile regressions reveals that changes in industry …

the transition period 1992-2001. Wage dispersion has generally been rising. The increase occurred predominantly in the … lower part of the wage distribution for women and in the upper part for men. Sectoral transition affected women to a much … larger extent than men. A sequential decomposition analysis using quantile regressions reveals that changes in industry …

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 …