Female Managers and Their Wages in Central Europe

42 Pages Posted: 27 Sep 2006

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Stepan Jurajda

CERGE-EI; IZA Institute of Labor Economics; Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

Teodora Paligorova

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

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Date Written: September 2006

Abstract

This paper examines the gender gaps in employment and wages among top- and lower-level managerial employees in a recent sample of Czech firms. Unlike the existing analyses of managerial gender pay gaps, we acknowledge the adverse consequences of the low and uneven representation of women for the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition and offer an alternative set of results based on a matching procedure. Only 7% of top-level Czech managers are women and their wages are about 20 percent lower even when compared only to their comparable male colleagues.

Keywords: managers, gender pay gap

JEL Classification: J31, J71, P31

Suggested Citation

Jurajda, Stepan and Paligorova, Teodora, Female Managers and Their Wages in Central Europe (September 2006). IZA Discussion Paper No. 2303, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=933033 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.933033

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