CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Petkovic, Djordje |
|---|---|
| Title | The Glass Ceiling In The Croatian, Hungarian And German Labor Markets (2006-2012) |
| Summary | This thesis seeks to examine gender inequality in the labor markets in Croatia, Hungary and Germany in the period from 2006 to 2012. Specifically, the aim of the thesis is to discover whether glass ceiling effect (gender based discrimination that retains women from obtaining highly paid, top level positions inside the firms) is one of the characteristics of these labor markets. Analysis uses Labor Force Survey data for full time employees in order to establish the driving forces of the gender inequality. The main variable of interest is a binary variable that captures whether a person holds a supervisory position. During the analysis I point to the different conceptions of supervisory positions across countries and time. I use three methods in order to capture different parts of the glass ceiling effect. Linear probability model establishes differences between men and women in terms of the probability of holding a supervisory position. Results show the presence of the glass ceiling in all three labor markets. Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition of the linear model shows that human capital can explain part of the differences in the German labor market, while better human capital endowments of women in the Croatian and Hungarian labor markets don’t help them to have advantage in obtaining a supervisory position. Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition for the logit model reveals that the size of the firm is also an important determinant of the differences in probabilities between men and women to hold high level positions. |
| Supervisor | Kézdi, Gábor |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/petkovic_djordje.pdf |
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