Gender wage gap in European emerging markets: a meta-analytic perspective

Abstract

In this paper, we report the results of a meta-analysis of 670 estimates extracted from 53 previous research works to estimate the gender wage gap in European emerging markets. A meta-synthesis of collected estimates exhibits that the gender differences have a statistically significant and economically meaningful impact on wage levels. Synthesis results also reveal that the gender wage gap in countries with EU membership is lower than that in non-EU member states and, nevertheless, the wage gap between men and women has a tendency to diminish over time in the region as a whole. The meta-regression analysis of literature heterogeneity and test for publication selection bias back up the findings obtained from the meta-synthesis.

Gender and International Revenue

“…The contributing factors to these inequalities are different labor patterns, such as industrial fields, occupations, and job classifications. This has led to many countries' governments' efforts to reform labor policies (Iwasaki and Satogami, 2023).…”