Gendered Transition: Post-Soviet Trends in Gender Wage Inequality among Young Full-Time Workers

Trapido, Denis

doi:10.1093/esr/jcl030

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“…This paper studies the gender wage gap in Estonia, a former centrally planned economy where the gender wage differences in favour of men emerged forcefully during the transition process (Trapido (2007)). There are a number of papers emphasising the massive labour market adjustments during the transition from planned to market economies in Central and Eastern Europe 1 .…”

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Do you get what you ask? The gender gap in desired and realised wages

Meriküll

Mõtsmees²

2017

IJM

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This paper will study gender differences in wage bargaining by comparing the unexplained wage gap in desired, realised and reservation wages. The notion of desired wages shows workers' first bet to potential employers during the job-search process. It is found that: (1) The unexplained gender wage gap is around 20% in desired and realised wages, which supports the view that gender income gap in expectations compares well with realised income gap. (2) The unexplained gender wage gap is larger in desired wages than in reservation wages for unemployed individuals that can be related to women's higher disutility from unemployment. (3) Occupational and sectoral mobility cannot explain a significant additional part of the gender wage gap.

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Section: Background Of the Studymentioning

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Do you get what you ask? The gender gap in desired and realised wages

Meriküll

Mõtsmees²

2017

IJM

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“…Inspired by the possibility that market transition could reveal the processes through which economic and social institutions shape social inequality, sociologists have explored the impact of sweeping market reforms on different aspects of social stratification (see Keister and Borelli, 2012 for a recent review). Many studies address intra-generational processes of inequality, such as the relative effects of political, human, and social capital, gender, and structural change on earnings, employment, and other labor market outcomes (Bian and Logan, 1996; Domański, 2005; Gerber and Mayorova, 2010; Gerber, 2012, 2006, 2002, 2000a; Nee and Opper, 2010; Nee, 1996, 1991, 1989; Róna-Tas, 1994; Trapido, 2007; Verhoeven et al, 2005; Walder, 2003, 2002; Wu and Xie, 2003; Wu, 2006; Xie and Hannum, 1996; Zhao and Zhou, 2002; Zhou et al, 1997). …”

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Inter-generational micro-class mobility during and after socialism: The power, education, autonomy, capital, and horizontal (PEACH) model in Hungary

Lippényi

Gerber

2016

Social Science Research

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We propose a theoretical model of how occupational mobility operates differently under socialism than under market regimes. Our model specifies four vertical dimensions of occupational resources—power, education, autonomy, and capital—plus a horizontal dimension consisting of linkages among occupations in the same economic branch. Given the nature of state socialist political-economic institutions, we expect power to exhibit much stronger effects in the socialist mobility regime, while autonomy and capital should play greater stratifying roles after the market transition. Education should have stable effects, and horizontal linkages should diminish in strength with market reforms. We estimate our model’s parameters using data from surveys conducted in Hungary during and after the socialist period. We adopt a micro-class approach, though we test it against approaches that use more aggregated class categories. Our model provides a superior fit to other mobility models, and our results confirm our hypotheses about the distinctive features of the state socialist mobility regime. Mobility researchers often look for common patterns characterizing mobility in all industrialized societies. Our findings suggest that national institutions can produce fundamentally distinct patterns of mobility.

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“…Research on work processes in the former Soviet Union shows that the gender composition of occupations should also be considered. In particular, in areas where wages for female-dominated occupations declined, the wage gap increased; while in areas where wages for male-dominated occupations declined, the wage gap declined (Trapido 2007). …”

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Market Transition: An Assessment of the State of the Field

Keister

Borelli

2012

Sociological Perspectives

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Large-scale changes in the global political and economic landscape have led to the proliferation of transition economies in recent decades. Market transition is the movement of an economy from state socialism toward market coordination of economic activity. In a redistributive state socialist economy, government officials collect and re-allocate goods according to a central plan. In a market economy, buyers and sellers bargain directly over price. The transformation of socialism into some form of a market economy realigns the interests of economic and political actors, introduces new actors such as private and hybrid firms, transforms labor relations, creates unique opportunities for economic participation and achievement, alters the personal characteristics and social relations that are recognized and rewarded, and otherwise changes incentives and reward structures. As a result, market transition alters the nature of social and economic behavior in a country often quite dramatically and rapidly.

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Gendered Transition: Post-Soviet Trends in Gender Wage Inequality among Young Full-Time Workers

Cited by 39 publications

References 31 publications

Do you get what you ask? The gender gap in desired and realised wages

Do you get what you ask? The gender gap in desired and realised wages

Inter-generational micro-class mobility during and after socialism: The power, education, autonomy, capital, and horizontal (PEACH) model in Hungary

Market Transition: An Assessment of the State of the Field

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