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The Gender Wage Gap: A Study of Paid Work in Cyprus
Author(s) -
Christofides Louis,
Pashardes Panos
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
labour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1467-9914
pISSN - 1121-7081
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9914.00135
Subject(s) - wage , gender gap , demographic economics , economics , sample (material) , work (physics) , labour economics , gender pay gap , hourly wage , join (topology) , mechanical engineering , chemistry , mathematics , chromatography , combinatorics , engineering
The gender wage gap in paid employment was studied using data from the 1991 Survey of Household Expenditure and Income for Cyprus, a country which aspires to join the European Union. Selection from a sample which includes more than paid employees was taken into account. It was found that average weekly wages for women are about 60 percent of those for men. Approximately 60 percent of the observed gender gap can be explained by differences in average characteristics but much of this explanation includes the results of industry and occupation choices, and opportunities in these populations.