Is the Rule of Law Significant for the Explanation of Differences in the Gender Pay Gap?

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.18267/j.pep.684" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.18267/j.pep.684</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.18267/j.pep.684" target="_blank" >10.18267/j.pep.684</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Is the Rule of Law Significant for the Explanation of Differences in the Gender Pay Gap?

Original language description

Using data from European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions, the study examines the causes of variation in the unexplained gender pay gap among 25 European countries and considers the effect of the legal environment on these. We employ the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition to estimate the unexplained part of the gender pay gap. To assess the impact of the rule of law on unexplained gender wage differences, we apply the linear regression model, where the estimated unexplained gender pay gap is used as a dependent variable and the selected rule of law indicators (specifically the Worldwide Governance Indicators Rule of Law and the Legal System &amp; Property Rights Index) as explanatory variables. Controlling for other institutions affecting gender wage differences (specifically the labor market regulation, work-family reconciliation policy and male wage dispersion), we suggest that differences in the quality of legislation and law enforcement across European countries may partly account for the variation in the unexplained gender pay gap. A very progressive improvement in rule of law indices (from the worst to the best among examined 25 European countries) leads to a decrease in the unexplained gender pay gap by 4.5 - 5 percentage points.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Prague Economic Papers

ISSN

1210-0455

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

27

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

704-722

UT code for WoS article

000456641600006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85062333112