The gender pay gap in the transition from communism: some empirical evidence

The Gender Pay Gap in the Transition from Communism: Some Empirical Evidence

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 the ‘unexplained’ component using con...

Empirical evidence of the gender pay gap in New Zealand

The Gender Pay Gap

on the teacher-generated v.s. leaner-generated noticing-the-gap activities in language classes

abstract the purpose of this study is twofold: on the one hand, it is intended to see what kind of noticing-the –gap activity (teacher generated vs. learner generated) is more efficient in teaching l2 grammar in classroom language learning. on the other hand, it is an attempt to determine which approach of the noticing-the-gap- activity is more effective in the long- term retention of grammar...

Discussion Paper No. 04/97 THE GENDER PAY GAP IN RUSSIA DURING THE TRANSITION

This paper attempts to explore the link between rising wage dispersion in Russia over the transitional period and the gender pay gap. The work of Blau and Khan (1996) emphasizes a role for ‘wage structure’ in the determination of the gender pay gap although some interpretational issues concerning their methodology have been raised recently by Suen (1997). The analysis presented here identifies ...