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The Impact Of Sex Segregation By Economic Activity On The Gender Pay Gap Across Europe

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  • M. Mavrikiou, Petroula

    (Frederick University, School of Economic Sciences and Administration, Cyprus)

  • Angelovska, Julijana

    (University of Tourism and Management in Skopje, Faculty of Economics, Republic of North Macedonia)

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The gender pay gap is a complex issue caused by a number of interrelated factors and has inevitable impact on the status of women in their economic and social life. The objectives of this paper are concentrated in investigating the sex-segregation by economic activity in the labor market and its relationship to the gender pay gap across Europe. Dissimilarity index is calculated and sectoral gender based segregation in EU during 2010 was on average 0.30, meaning that 30% of the employed population would need to change economic activity in order to have an equal distribution of men and women. The findings of cluster analysis showed the paradox that some countries like Luxemburg, Belgium, Poland have high dissimilarity indices and lowest percentage of gender pay gap or Scandinavian with the highest dissimilarity indices have gender pay gap around the mean on the European level.

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  • M. Mavrikiou, Petroula & Angelovska, Julijana, 2020. "The Impact Of Sex Segregation By Economic Activity On The Gender Pay Gap Across Europe," UTMS Journal of Economics, University of Tourism and Management, Skopje, Macedonia, vol. 11(1), pages 1-12.
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    Keywords

    gender inequality; dissimilarity index; cluster analysis; horizontal sex-segregation; labor market;
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    JEL classification:

    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
    • N30 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - General, International, or Comparative

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