IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/stuchp/978-0-230-36359-5_6.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Gender Segregation Within Firms: Causes and Consequences

In: In the Grip of Transition: Economic and Social Consequences of Restructuring in Russia and Ukraine

Author

Listed:
  • Inna Maltseva
  • Daria Nesterova

Abstract

In this chapter we study the sources of gender segregation within firms and their effect on the gender wage gap. Compared to numerous papers devoted to gender segregation, this research is based on unique personnel data from one Russian industrial firm for the period from 2002 to 2006. We show that the emergence and the fixing of segregated employment structures can be explained, first, by initial job assignments and, secondly, by gender differences in promotion paths for male and female workers. Estimates of the gender wage gap allow us to conclude that it is largely driven by a gender segregation of job positions and hierarchical levels, rather than by workers’ characteristics.

Suggested Citation

  • Inna Maltseva & Daria Nesterova, 2012. "Gender Segregation Within Firms: Causes and Consequences," Studies in Economic Transition, in: Tilman Brück & Hartmut Lehmann (ed.), In the Grip of Transition: Economic and Social Consequences of Restructuring in Russia and Ukraine, chapter 5, pages 128-155, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:stuchp:978-0-230-36359-5_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230363595_6
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:stuchp:978-0-230-36359-5_6. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.