We examine how much children and responsibilities related with them contribute towards the divergence of men's and women's wages, and consequently, to the formation of the gender wage gap. To derive the relative contribution of gender specific wage inequalities caused by the parenthood to the...

Men's labor income is on average higher than that of women practically everywhere. This gender pay gap can be decomposed into two components: on the one hand men usually work in better paid jobs (the sorting effect), and, on the other, even in the same occupation men get higher wages (the...

We estimate the gender pay gap with the traditional OLS based Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition, and with an extension using Random Forest (RF) regressions on Hungarian data for the years 2008-2016. Random Forests perform better as predictors out-of-sample and yield consistently lower estimates for...

The gender earnings gap can be attributed either to the different distribution of males and females across jobs or to within job biases in favour of men. The latter is frequently called the wage structure effect, and it may be interpreted as wage discrimination against women. In this paper we...

Even though Hungarian law, including Hungarian labour law had enshrined some initial provisions on prohibition of discrimination before the process of adoption of relevant EU law, European standards in relation of regulation of equality required the implementation of a set of dominantly new and...

The purpose of this series of articles is to give an overview of the impact of the EU law on equal treatment on relevant Hungarian labor law. In the previous part (Part I), a short description was given on the status of national provisions as existed before the implementation of the relevant EU...