Working Paper: CEPR ID: DP5871
Authors: Stepan Jurajda; Teodora Paligorova
Abstract: This paper examines the gender gaps in employment and wages among top- and lower-level managerial employees in a recent sample of Czech firms. Unlike the existing analyses of managerial gender pay gaps, we acknowledge the adverse consequences of the low and uneven representation of women for the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition and offer an alternative set of results based on a matching procedure. Only 7% of top-level Czech managers are women and their wages are about 20 percent lower even when compared only to their comparable male colleagues.
Keywords: gender pay gap; managers
JEL Codes: J31; J71; P31
Edges that are evidenced by causal inference methods are in orange, and the rest are in light blue.
| Cause | Effect |
|---|---|
| Gender (J16) | Wage Disparities (J31) |
| Female Representation at Lower Levels (J16) | Female Representation and Wages at Higher Levels (J31) |
| Matching Techniques (C52) | Unexplained Component of Wage Gap (J79) |