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Do Women Managers Lower Gender Pay Gaps? Evidence from Public and Private Firms

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  • Iga Magda
  • Ewa Cukrowska-Torzewska

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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.

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  • Iga Magda & Ewa Cukrowska-Torzewska, 2019. "Do Women Managers Lower Gender Pay Gaps? Evidence from Public and Private Firms," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(4), pages 185-210, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:femeco:v:25:y:2019:i:4:p:185-210
    DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2019.1634828
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    1. Iga Magda & Katarzyna Sałach, 2021. "Gender pay gaps in domestic and foreign-owned firms," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 61(4), pages 2237-2263, October.
    2. Rodrigo Ceni & Estefanía Galván & Cecilia Parada, 2023. "Gender gaps and the role of female bosses: evidence from matched employer-employee administrative data," Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) 23-06, Instituto de Economía - IECON.
    3. Bram Timmermans & Joanna Tyrowicz & Lucas van der Velde, 2023. "(Gender) Tone at the top: the effects of gender board diversity on gender wage inequality in Europe," GRAPE Working Papers 89, GRAPE Group for Research in Applied Economics.

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