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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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