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Les inégalités salariales de genre : expliquer l'injustifiable ou justifier l'inexplicable

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Danièle Meulders
Robert Plasman
François Rycx

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In 2001 the gender wage gap in the European union was lying between 6 % and 21 % (ECHP, full-timers). Gender wage gap clearly appears as the core of the inequalities between men and women on the labor market. Using recent results from a research program on the gender wage gap, we show that the large impact of the sectoral and occupational factors in explaining the gender wage gap are not mainly due to differences in characteristics of men and women in employment. We also show that testing the job sharing theory is giving different results for men and women and that the particularities of the industrial relations system largely contribute to explain the size and the national differences in the gender wage gap. The article also stresses the fact that mainstream economic theory remains unable to explain what is usually called the explained part of the gender wage gap as well as the unexplained part.

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Article provided by De Boeck Université in its journal Reflets et perspectives de la vie économique.

Volume (Year): XLIV (2005)
Issue (Month): 2 ()
Pages: 95-107
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Keywords: Gender wage gap; feminist economics; human capital; segregation; wage equations;

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  1. Tojerow, Ilan & Rycx, François & Plasman, Robert, 2004. "Rent sharing and the gender wage gap in Belgium," Economic Literature ULB 2013-785, Université libre de Bruxelles, Libraries. [Downloadable!]
  2. Rycx, François, 2002. "Inter-industry wage differentials: evidence from Belgium in a cross-national perspective," Economic Literature ULB 2013-791, Université libre de Bruxelles, Libraries. [Downloadable!]
  3. Plasman, Robert & Sissoko, Salimata, 2004. "Comparing Apples with Oranges: Revisiting the Gender Wage Gap in an International Perspective," IZA Discussion Papers 1449, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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  4. Blau, Francine D & Kahn, Lawrence M, 1996. "International Differences in Male Wage Inequality: Institutions versus Market Forces," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 104(4), pages 791-836, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  5. Brenda Gannon & Robert Plasman & François Rycx & Ilan Tojerow, 2005. "Inter-Industry Wage Differentials and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from European Countries," IZA Discussion Papers 1563, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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  6. François Rycx & Ilan Tojerow, 2002. "Inter-industry Wage Differentials and the Gender Wage Gap in Belgium," Brussels Economic Review/Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, Editions du DULBEA, Université libre de Bruxelles, Department of Applied Economics (DULBEA), vol. 45(2), pages 119-141.
  7. Francine D. Blau & Lawrence M. Kahn, 2000. "Gender Differences in Pay," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 14(4), pages 75-99, Fall. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  8. Danièle Meulders & Robert Plasman & François Rycx, 2002. "Gender Wage Gaps: A European Perspective," Brussels Economic Review/Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, Editions du DULBEA, Université libre de Bruxelles, Department of Applied Economics (DULBEA), vol. 45(2), pages 3-10.
  9. Blau, Francine D & Kahn, Lawrence M, 1992. "The Gender Earnings Gap: Learning from International Comparisons," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 82(2), pages 533-38, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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