Gender Pay Differentials: Cross-National Evidence from Micro-Data

by B. Mahy (Editor), R. Plasman (Editor), F. Rycx (Editor)

Overview

This book provides new evidence on the magnitude and sources of pay inequalities between women and men in European countries and New Zealand on the basis of micro data. Particular attention is devoted to job access and workplace practices, promotions and wage growth, sectoral affiliation and rent-sharing, and unobserved heterogeneity and dynamics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349281350
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2006
Series:	Applied Econometrics Association Series
Edition description:	1st ed. 2006
Pages:	206
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

W. ROBERT J. ALEXANDER Department of Economics, University of Otago, New Zealand TOR ERIKSSON Professor, Aarhus School of Business, Denmark AMYNAH GANGJI Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium DOLORES GARCIA CRESPO University of Malaga, Spain HERMANN GARTNER Institute for Employment Research, Germany MURAT GENÇ Department of Economics, University of Otago, New Zealand NABANITA DATTA GUPTA Associate Professor (On Leave), Aarhus School of Business and Research Professor, Danish National Institute of Social Research, Denmark MOHAMMAD JAFORULLAH Department of Economics, University of Otago, New Zealand OLIVIER JOSEPH Céreq DEVA, France SÉVERINE LEMIÈRE Associate Researcher, DULBEA, Free University of Brussels, Belgium KRISTIAN ORSINI Faculty of Economics and Applied Economics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium SALIMATA SISSOKO Research Fellow, Department of Applied Economics (DULBEA), Belgium ILAN TOJEROW Research Fellow and Teaching Assistant, Department of Applied Economics (DULBEA), Free University of Brussels, Belgium PHILIPPE VAN KERM Centre for Population, Poverty and Public Policy Studies/International Networks for Studies in Technology, Environment, Alternatives, Development (CEPS/INSTEAD), Luxembourg

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures Notes on the Contributors Introduction; B.Mahy, R.Plasman & F.Rycx PART 1: JOB ACCESS AND WORKPLACE PRACTICES Assessing Gender Discrimination amongst Young People on their Arrival into the Labour Market: Analysis Young Populations of French and Foreign Origin; O.Joseph & S.Lemière High-Performance Work Performances, Incentive Pay Schemes, Worker Evaluation and Male-Female Wages; N.D.Gupta & T.Eriksson PART 2: PROMOTIONS AND WAGE GROWTH Return to Internal Mobility in the Spanish Labour Market: Differences by Gender; D.Garcia Crespo Gender Differences in Wage Growth and Promotion in Luxembourg; P.Van Kerm PART 3: SECTORS, PROFITS AND RENT-SHARING The Gender Pay Gap in Belgium: How Much Do Sectors Matter? F.Rycx & I.Tojerow Gender Wage Inequality and Rent Sharing: Evidence from a German Linked Employer-Employee-Dataset; H.Gartner PART 4: DYNAMICS AND UNOBSERVED HETEROGENEITY Does Unobserved Heterogeneity Matter? A Panel Data Analysis of the Gender Pay Gap in European Countries, 1994-2001; A.Gangji, C.Orsini & S.Sissoko The Gender Wage Ratio in New Zealand 1997-2003; W.R.J.Alexander, M.Genç & M.Jaforullah Index