This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist … countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender pay gap has not exhibited, in general …, an upward tendency over the transitional period to which available data relate. Most of the gender pay gap is ascribed to …

and is found to be similar across countries. As at the end of the 1980s, the gender wage gap is larger in Russia where …Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering … become stronger than in Russia. The earnings penalty of being employed in the public service sector in Russia has increased …

determinants of the gender earnings gap in an internal labor market during late transition. The gap is sizable but declines … strongly over the entire period. Gender earnings differentials are largest for production workers who constitute the largest …

measures of informality by taking advantage of a rich dataset on Russia over the period 2003 - 2011, that is before and after …

Using a rich and comparable micro-data set, we analyse international differences in gender pay gaps in the private … gender differentials. However, the magnitude of their effects varies across countries. …

rates (at over 80%), the unconditional gender gap in log hourly wages has increased by a half, while that in log of net and … tended to reduce (not to increase) the gender wage gap: in fact, women have benefited both of changes in the degree of wage …

This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth …

This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure … show that the gender difference in the probability of getting a job increases along the wage ladder from 9% to 50%. Females …

to education are higher for women than men in both countries; the gender gap has worsened in 2008, but more so for …