REINVESTIGATING THE DETERMINANTS OF GENDER WAGE GAP: EVIDENCE FROM SURVEY

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

REINVESTIGATING THE DETERMINANTS OF GENDER WAGE GAP: EVIDENCE FROM SURVEY

Original language description

This paper contributes to the literature with analyses of different aspects of wage differentials between men and women with a special attention to socio-psychological factors and job-related characteristics. For purposes of this study we conducted a survey on a representative sample of employees in the Czech Republic, in which we asked 64 questions covering various aspects of work and family life, preferences, personality and other characteristics of employees and their jobs. In addition to already established questions, we introduce a number of novel controls, such as grit among psychological factors based on research in psychology by e.g. Duckworth and Quinn (2009), and novel gender identity and family situation variables. This unique survey helps us to shed some light on factors explaining gender wage gap as a whole. In our analyses we first run wage equations starting with very parsimonious specification with the female dummy as a sole explanatory variable, and then we add various subsets of variables one by one in order to examine the effect of their inclusion on the female dummy coefficient. We find that female dummy shows 25.3% wage difference with respect to men and it explains approximately 11.6% of the variance in monthly wages (adj. R-sq) in this most parsimonious model specification. Adding our rich subsets of variables decreases the coefficient to female dummy substantially to 3.2%, and our full model specification explains 53.5% of variance of monthly wages.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project

<a href="/en/project/GAP402%2F11%2F2464" target="_blank" >GAP402/11/2464: Measuring Wage Discrimination According to Gender</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Proceedings of 14th International Scientific Conference Economic Policy in the European Union Member Countries: September 14-16, 2016, Petrovice u Karviné, Czech Republic. Part 1

ISBN

978-80-7510-210-2

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e-ISSN

neuvedeno

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

574-586

Publisher name

Slezská univerzita v Opavě, Obchodně podnikatelská fakulta v Karviné

Place of publication

Karviná

Event location

Petrovice u Karviné

Event date

Sep 14, 2016

Type of event by nationality

EUR - Evropská akce

UT code for WoS article

000403638200061