CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2007
| Author | Guliyev, Jamal Nadir |
|---|---|
| Title | The Gender Pay Gap in Ukraine: The Effects of Privatization |
| Summary | In this thesis I measure the gender pay gap in the Ukraine in two years, in the years 1986 and 2003. Using the data from the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring survey I measure the gender pay gap in these two years and check the effect of the sector in which the individual works (private or state). To do so I use OLS and Juhn Murphy Prierce decomposition. The results of the estimations show that gender pay gap existed in both periods, but it decreased in 2003. I find that women working in the private sector earn 19% more than those working in the state-owned enterprises. I believe that the reason for this “private enterprise premium” is that the private enterprises have hard budget constraints and that their goal is to make maximum possible profits, and thus they are more eager to employ women who have the same skills as men but can accept lower wages (Gary S. Becker, 1957). |
| Supervisor | Telegdy, Almos |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2007/c05guj01.pdf |
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