Pay inequalities between women and men are a key issue for labour market policy. This book provides new evidence on the magnitude and sources of these pay inequalities in European countries and New Zealand on the basis of micro data. Particular attention is devoted to job access and workplace practices, promotions and wage growth, sectoral affiliation and rent-sharing, and unobserved heterogeneity and dynamics.
Author(s): Benoit Mahy, Robert Plasman, Francois Rycx
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 216
Cover......Page 0
Contents......Page 3
List of Tables, Figures and Boxes......Page 5
Notes on the Contributors......Page 8
Introduction......Page 11
Part I: Job Access and Workplace Practices......Page 21
1 Assessing Gender Discrimination amongst Young People on their Arrival into the Labour Market: Analysis of Young Populations of French and Foreign Origins......Page 23
2 High-Performance Work Practices, Incentive Pay Schemes, Worker Evaluation Systems and Male–Female Wages......Page 44
Part II: Promotions and Wage Growth......Page 69
3 Return to Internal Mobility in the Spanish Labour Market: Differences by Gender......Page 71
4 Gender Differences in Wage Growth and Promotion in Luxembourg......Page 86
Part III: Sectors, Profits and Rent-Sharing......Page 107
5 The Gender Pay Gap in Belgium: How Much do Sectors Matter?......Page 109
6 Gender Wage Inequality and Rent-Sharing: Evidence from a German-Linked Employer – Employee Data-set......Page 128
Part IV: Dynamics and Unobserved Heterogeneity......Page 143
7 Does Unobserved Heterogeneity Matter? A Panel-Data Analysis of the Gender Pay Gap......Page 145
8 The Gender Wage Ratio in New Zealand, 1997–2003......Page 175
B......Page 199
C......Page 200
D......Page 201
E......Page 202
F......Page 203
G......Page 204
H......Page 206
J......Page 207
L......Page 208
N......Page 209
P......Page 210
S......Page 212
V......Page 214
W......Page 215
Z......Page 216
