Premium
‘Mind the Gap’: An Analysis of Gender Wage Differentials in Russia
Author(s) -
Arabsheibani G. Reza,
Lau Lisa
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
labour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1467-9914
pISSN - 1121-7081
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9914.00114
Subject(s) - earnings , wage , selection (genetic algorithm) , sample (material) , differential (mechanical device) , economics , selection bias , set (abstract data type) , work (physics) , demographic economics , econometrics , labour economics , statistics , mathematics , computer science , accounting , mechanical engineering , chemistry , chromatography , artificial intelligence , engineering , programming language , aerospace engineering
This paper provides new estimates for male‐female earnings differentials in Russia, incorporating the use of the Heckman ( Econometrica 47: 153–161, 1979) two‐step procedure for sample selection bias. This is a necessary adjustment in the case of female earnings because women who participate in the labour market may be a non‐random sub‐set of those who could work. This is a technique that enables the participation decision of women to be modelled and their earnings corrected for self‐selection. The gender gap is then calculated using Oaxaca ( International Economic Review 14: 693–709, 1973) and Reimers’ ( Review of Economics and Statistics 65: 570–579, 1983) methods. The results indicate that the unexplained part of the earnings differential is smaller than in other studies that did not correct for sample selection.