Causes of the gender pay gap: the role of workplace environment
(2017) EKHS01 20171Department of Economic History
- Abstract
- Over the past four decades women managed to considerably improve their situation in the labor market compared to men. However, women still earn on average considerably less than men in most countries in the world. Although literature investigating this topic is extensive, it does not provide with a full answer for the question: what is the gender pay gap caused by? Even though socio-demographic individual characteristics explain most of the gap, there is still unexplained part of the gap persisting, which is contributed either to omitted variables or gender discrimination. The aim of this study is to investigate whether workplace environment characteristics could be omitted in previous research and whether they contribute to a decrease of... (More)
- Over the past four decades women managed to considerably improve their situation in the labor market compared to men. However, women still earn on average considerably less than men in most countries in the world. Although literature investigating this topic is extensive, it does not provide with a full answer for the question: what is the gender pay gap caused by? Even though socio-demographic individual characteristics explain most of the gap, there is still unexplained part of the gap persisting, which is contributed either to omitted variables or gender discrimination. The aim of this study is to investigate whether workplace environment characteristics could be omitted in previous research and whether they contribute to a decrease of unexplained part of the gender pay gap. This study suggests that men and women are provided with workplace environment of similar quality, however, men are better compensated for being exposed to negative work environment factors. In order to achieve the aim of this study, six variables describing workplace environment were added to set of control variables and Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition was conducted. (Less)
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- author
- Mazur, Karolina LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- EKHS01 20171
- year
- 2017
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- wage differentials, gender inequality, labor market
- language
- English
- id
- 8916218
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abstract = {{Over the past four decades women managed to considerably improve their situation in the labor market compared to men. However, women still earn on average considerably less than men in most countries in the world. Although literature investigating this topic is extensive, it does not provide with a full answer for the question: what is the gender pay gap caused by? Even though socio-demographic individual characteristics explain most of the gap, there is still unexplained part of the gap persisting, which is contributed either to omitted variables or gender discrimination. The aim of this study is to investigate whether workplace environment characteristics could be omitted in previous research and whether they contribute to a decrease of unexplained part of the gender pay gap. This study suggests that men and women are provided with workplace environment of similar quality, however, men are better compensated for being exposed to negative work environment factors. In order to achieve the aim of this study, six variables describing workplace environment were added to set of control variables and Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition was conducted.}},
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note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Causes of the gender pay gap: the role of workplace environment}},
year = {{2017}},
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