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The Part-Time/Full-Time Wage Gap in Central and Eastern Europe: the Case of Estonia

Research in Economics and Business: Central and Eastern Europe

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Title The Part-Time/Full-Time Wage Gap in Central and Eastern Europe: the Case of Estonia
 
Creator Krillo, Kerly; University of Tartu
Masso, Jaan; University of Tartu
 
Description Unlike Western countries, there are no studies focusing on the full-time/part-time wage gap in Central and Eastern Europe countries. The focus of this paper is the incidence and reasons for the part-time wage gap in Estonia, a small Eastern European catch up economy. We use Estonian Labour Force Survey data for 1997-2007, and the part time wage gap is decomposed using the Heckman selection model and Oaxaca-Blinder wage decompositions. The results indicate that for females the observable part-time wage premium is unexplained with the controls used in the analysis. For males, the full-time raw premium exists, but it is to a large extent captured by explanatory variables. For both genders, the labour market situation is remarkably better for voluntary part-timers. The probable explanations for this are the generally low wage levels, the cyclical behaviour of wage gaps, undeclared income and unobserved heterogeneity of employees and firms.
 
Publisher Research in Economics and Business: Central and Eastern Europe
 
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Date 2013-07-24
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Identifier http://rebcee.eu/index.php/REB/article/view/24
 
Source Research in Economics and Business: Central and Eastern Europe; Vol 2, No 1 (2010)
1736-9126
1736-9126
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://rebcee.eu/index.php/REB/article/view/24/23
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