Izvorni znanstveni članak
https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2018.1432395
Does motherhood explain lower wages for women in Macedonia?
Blagica Petreski
; Finance Think, The Economic Research & Policy Institute, Skopje, Macedonia
Marjan Petreski
; School of Business Economics and Management, University American College Skopje, Skopje, Macedonia
Sažetak
The objective of the paper is to estimate the motherhood wage gap
and its contribution to the gender wage gap in Macedonia, after
considering workers’ characteristics and selectivity bias into the labour
market for the childbearing-age population. In particular, it aims to
disentangle the extent to which the natural role of women to have and
raise children affects the gender wage gap. Due to the large female
inactivity in Macedonia, we employ a repeated imputation technique,
which imputes the wages of those who are unemployed or inactive.
Imputed samples are used to decompose the gaps by weighing and
by using a re-centred influence function. The Survey of Income and
Living Conditions (2010) is used in the analysis. The results suggest
that the motherhood wage gap in Macedonia is fully explained by
characteristics and, hence, it does not contribute to the potential
reducing of the gender wage gap. The selection is also irrelevant, i.e.,
its consideration does not alter these conclusions.
Ključne riječi
Gender wage gap; motherhood wage gap; repeated imputations; Nonparametric decomposition
Hrčak ID:
200677
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Datum izdavanja:
3.12.2018.
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