Do Women Managers Lower Gender Pay Gaps? Evidence from Public and Private Firms. Issue 4 (2nd October 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Magda, Iga; Cukrowska-Torzewska, Ewa
• Is Part Of: Feminist economics. Volume 25:Issue 4(2019)
• Page Start: 185
• Page End: 210
• Publication Date: 2019-10-02
• Subjects: Gender wage gap -- gender wage inequality -- public sector -- women managers -- wage decomposition; J16 -- J45 -- J31; Feminist economics -- Periodicals; Women -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals; Women -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; 330.082
• DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2019.1634828
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1354-5701

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This paper analyzes the link between the share of women managers and the size of the firm-level gender pay gap, looking separately at the private and public sectors. Using a large linked employer–employee dataset for Poland and nonparametric and parametric decompositions, the study finds that a greater share of women managers is associated with an increased advantage for women in selected types of public-sector units: the ones in which remunerations of women and men are already equal, and a large share of the workforce is tertiary-educated. The effects are, however, relatively small in size. In private establishments, lower gender wage inequality is associated with higher shares of women workers, but not women managers.