CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2010
| Author | Nagy, Eszter |
|---|---|
| Title | Sex Segregation and Gender Wage Differences in Hungary |
| Summary | My thesis focuses on different factors determining the gender wage gap in Hungary between 1986 and 2007. My research question is: to what extent the gender wage difference can be explained by segregation and demographic characteristics, and how much of the gap remains unexplained after controlling for these effects. I use a decomposition method based on Bayard et al (2003) for 15 years of the Harmonized Hungarian Wage Survey between 1986 and 2007. According to my results segregation plays a big and increasing role (20-40%) in the Hungarian gender wage difference during the examined period, but the majority (60-80%) of the wage gap remains unexplained after controlling for demographic characteristics and segregation. The two most important segregation effects are occupational and within firmoccupation cell segregations. My results are consistent with similar estimates for other post transition countries (Csillag 2004, Jurajda 2003) and there are similarities with results for the United States (Bayard et al 2003) as well. |
| Supervisor | Telegdy, Almos |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2010/nagy_eszter.pdf |
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