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 …

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 …

This paper looks at the gender wage gap throughout the transition from communism to capitalism and throughout a time of … participation for women. Although the regime was formally egalitarian, the gender attitudes were conservative and the raw gender … wage gap was as large as 41% at the end of the communist period in Estonia. The large gender wage gap under communist rule …

This paper examines the changes in the inter-industry wage structure experienced by Russia since 1993, as part of its … increased. Moreover, Russia exhibits large movements in wage premia, as industries respond to massively changing demand …

This paper evaluates the gender wage gap among wage workers along the wage distribution in Georgia between 2004 and …). We find that the gender wage gap decreases along the wage distribution, from 0.64 log points to 0.54 log points …. Endowment differences explain between 22 percent and 61 percent of the observed gender wage gap, with the explained proportion …

This paper examines the contraction in the gender wage gap in Georgia between 2004 and 2011. Behind the continuous … decline at the mean lies a change in the shape of the gender wage gap across the wage distribution before and after the 2008 …

, including wages and employment. Non-cognitive skills can also serve as an additional explanation for the gender wage gap. This … paper disentangles the complex relationship between non-cognitive skills and the gender wage gap based on Russian data. Data …-cognitive skills. Our findings suggest that non-cognitive skills account for up to 8 per cent of the gender wage gap, although …

2013, we provide consistent estimates of the gender wage gap in urban China and investigate those factors that have …. Based on new data for 2013, however, we find that from 2007 to 2013 the gender wage gap narrowed. For 2013 we estimate the … gender wage gap at between 19 percent and 25 percent. Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions reveal that the contributions of the …