September 2006

IZA DP No. 2303: Female Managers and their Wages in Central Europe

Štepán Jurajda, Teodora Paligorova

published as "Czech Female Managers and their Wages" in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (3), 342-351

This paper examines the gender gaps in employment and wages among top- and lower-level managerial employees in a recent sample of Czech firms. Unlike the existing analyses of managerial gender pay gaps, we acknowledge the adverse consequences of the low and uneven representation of women for the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition and offer an alternative set of results based on a matching procedure. Only 7% of top-level Czech managers are women and their wages are about 20 percent lower even when compared only to their comparable male colleagues.