Publication:
The Economics of the Gender Wage Gap in Armenia

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorRodriguez-Chamussy, Lourdes
dc.contributor.authorSinha, Nistha
dc.contributor.authorAtencio, Andrea
dc.date.accessioned2018-04-20T14:37:51Z
dc.date.available2018-04-20T14:37:51Z
dc.date.issued2018-04
dc.description.abstractIn Armenia, the proportion of women among employed workers increased from 45 to 48 percent between 2008 and 2015. This evolution was accompanied by a fall in the gender earnings gap; however, the difference in average wages of men and women is still among the largest in comparison with countries in the Europe and Central Asia region. This study documents the gender wage gap in Armenia through stylized facts and further investigates its sources. The paper finds that the gender wage gap in hourly pay is 20 percent on average. Looking at the different percentiles, the disparity in wages in Armenia in 2015 shows an inverted U-shaped form with a larger differential in wages between men and women in the middle of the distribution. Using a reweighted, re-centered influence function decomposition, the analysis estimates the contribution of each covariate on the wage structure and composition effects along the wage distribution. The decomposition shows that the wage gap in Armenia is mostly driven by the wage structure effect (unexplained component), which accounts for almost all the wage gap in the middle part of the distribution (30th to 55th percentiles) and is even greater at the top, but better endowments of women offset it to some extent. In the bottom part of the distribution however, the composition effect is larger, consistent with lower endowments among women, for example, of skills and human capital.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/590191523968622975/The-economics-of-the-gender-wage-gap-in-Armenia
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-8409
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/29711
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 8409
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectGENDER WAGE GAP
dc.subjectFEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION
dc.subjectLABOR MARKET
dc.subjectPOVERTY AND INEQUALITY
dc.subjectGENDER GAP
dc.subjectWAGE INEQUALITY
dc.subjectGENDER DISCRIMINATION
dc.subjectINCOME DISTRIBUTION
dc.subjectLABOR SKILLS
dc.subjectWAGES
dc.titleThe Economics of the Gender Wage Gap in Armeniaen
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.typeDocument de travailfr
dc.typeDocumento de trabajoes
dspace.entity.typePublication
okr.crossref.titleThe Economics of the Gender Wage Gap in Armenia
okr.date.disclosure2018-04-17
okr.date.doiregistration2025-04-07T08:27:10.139168Z
okr.date.doiregistration2025-04-08T16:13:02.550437Z
okr.date.doiregistration2025-04-09T03:10:41.197551Z
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Policy Research Working Paper
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/590191523968622975/The-economics-of-the-gender-wage-gap-in-Armenia
okr.guid590191523968622975
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-8409
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum090224b0858f344c_1_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum29811380
okr.identifier.reportWPS8409
okr.importedtrueen
okr.language.supporteden
okr.pdfurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/590191523968622975/pdf/WPS8409.pdfen
okr.region.administrativeEurope and Central Asia
okr.region.countryArmenia
okr.statistics.combined2628
okr.statistics.dr590191523968622975
okr.statistics.drstats2115
okr.topicGender::Gender and Development
okr.topicGender::Gender and Poverty
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Inequality
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Labor Markets
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Wages, Compensation & Benefits
okr.unitPoverty and Equity Global Practice
relation.isAuthorOfPublication1cd09879-bf48-40bf-a105-b41ee19ccedc
relation.isAuthorOfPublication.latestForDiscovery1cd09879-bf48-40bf-a105-b41ee19ccedc
relation.isSeriesOfPublication26e071dc-b0bf-409c-b982-df2970295c87
relation.isSeriesOfPublication.latestForDiscovery26e071dc-b0bf-409c-b982-df2970295c87
Files
Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 2 of 2
Thumbnail Image
Name:
WPS8409.pdf
Size:
980.79 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Download
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
WPS8409.txt
Size:
54.26 KB
Format:
Plain Text
Download
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
license.txt
Size:
1.71 KB
Format:
Plain Text
Description:
Download
Collections
Policy Research Working Papers