The Gender Pay Gap in the Transition from Communism: Some Empirical Evidence

By A. Newell, Barry Reilly. Social Science Research Network, 2001

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This short paper investigates the gender pay gap in a number of former communist countries of eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that, in general, the gender pay gap has not exhibited an upward tendency over the transitional period to which available data relate. Most of the gender pay gap is ascribed to the ‘unexplained’ component using conventional decompositions and this may partly be attributable to the proxy measure for labour force experience used in this study. Quantile regression analysis indicates that in all but one country, the ceteris paribus gender pay gap rises as we move up the wage distribution.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Political Science and International Relations

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Hung T. Pham
2. Barry Reilly
3. Astrid Kunze
4. A. Ugidos
5. Anastasia Semykina
6. Javier Gardeazabal
7. G. Heineck
8. Ben Jann

In Gender Studies

1. Hung T. Pham
2. Astrid Kunze
3. Anastasia Semykina
4. Barry Reilly
5. Salvatore Ruggieri
6. Andrea Romei

In Political Science and International Relations

1. Hung T. Pham
2. Astrid Kunze
3. Barry Reilly
4. Javier Gardeazabal

Citations in the corpus

• Gender wage gap studies: consistency and decomposition (2008, background): “…heterogeneity, non-random sample selection 25See Albrecht et al. (2003) for Sweden, Bonjour and Gerfin (2001) for Switzerland, Garcia et al. (2001) for Spain, Fitzenberger and Wunderlich (2002) and Fitzenberger and Kunze (2005) for Germany and Newell et al. (2001) in former communist countries.”
• Ceiling and Floors: Gender Wage Gaps by Education in Spain (2005, unknown): “More recently, such estimation techniques have been used to study gender wage discrimination in several former communist countries (Newell and Reilly, 2001) and in Sweden (Albrecht et al., 2003).”
• Gender Differences in Personality and Earnings:Evidence from Russia (2007, background): “…earnings gap in Russia (see Arabsheibani and Lau 1999, Brainerd 2000, Clarke 2002, Deloach and Hoffman 2002, Gerry et al. 2004, Glinskaya and Mroz 2000, Jovanovic and Lokshin 2004, Linz 1995 1996, Newell and Reilly 1996, Newell and Reilly 2001, Ogloblin 1999, Reilly 1999, Satre-Ahlander 2001).”
• Gender wage discrimination at quantiles (2005, background): “gender wage gap, Newell and Reilly (2001) extend the analysis to several ex-communist”
• The Gender Pay Gap In Vietnam, 1993-2002: A Quantile Regression Approach (2007, methodology): “However, the relatively stable participation rates for female workers in Vietnam is in contrast to these countries, where the contraction in labour force participation was relatively large during the transition period (Newell and Reilly, 2001).”