Gender Wage Gap in the Czech Republic and Central European Countries

The basic structure of gender wage gaps, based on the EU-SILC 2008 dataset, is to a great extent similar for the Czech and Slovak Republics. A relatively small but positive part of the observed gender wage gap can be explained by gender differences in characteristics in the Czech and Slovak Republics, with a high contribution of job characteristics. An opposite result proved in Hungary and Poland, where working women have on average even better characteristics than working men.