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Author:Meng, X.
Meurs, D.
Title:The gender earnings gap: effects of institutions and firms — a comparative study of French and Australian private firms
Journal:Oxford Economic Papers
2004 : APR, VOL. 56:2, p. 189-208
Index terms:Earnings
Policy
Pay
Companies
Labour markets
Gender
Australia
France
Language:eng
Abstract:This paper uses two employer-employee linked data sets to investigate the interactive role of labour market institutions and firm wage policies on the gender earnings gap (here as: g-e-g.). Extending the Juhn et al. (1991) decomposition methodology, a new decomposition methodology is proposed to investigate the role of firm wage policies on the g-e-g. Two countries with different wage bargaining systems, Australia and France, are used to conduct a comparative study. It is found that firm wage policies in Australia play a much larger role in narrowing the g-e-g. than in France. This is mainly due to the fact that Australia has a more decentralised wage bargaining system and that such system is operated under an environment where there is a strong union presence.
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