The effect of transition from centrally planned to market economies on female employment is unclear a-priori. Many …’s employment. A frequently mentioned potential explanation of the lower female participation during the transition period is … having two earners during the turbulent transition period. The aim of this paper is to give an empirical assessment on how …

behavior of adjusted gender wage gaps in a wide selection of transition countries. We estimate comparable measures of adjusted … gender wage gaps for a comprehensive selection of transition countries over a period spanning nearly three decades. We … combine these estimates with measures of labor market reallocation in transition economies. We identify the episodes of …

This paper looks at the gender wage gap throughout the transition from communism to capitalism and throughout a time of … narrowed quickly during the first years of economic transition, but the further decline in the gap has been slow. The paper has …