TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Plasman, Robert
AU  - Sissoko, Salimata
        TI  - Comparing Apples with Oranges: Revisiting the Gender Wage Gap in an International Perspective
        PY  - 2004/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 1449
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1449
        AB  - Using a rich and comparable micro-data set, we analyse international differences in gender pay gaps in the private sector for a sample of five European economies: Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Italy and Spain. Using different methods, we examine how wage structure, differences in the distribution of measured characteristics, occupational and industrial segregation contribute to explain the pattern of international differences. Furthermore, we take into account indirect discrimination influencing female occupational and industrial distributions. We find significant impacts of those latter factors on gender differentials. However, the magnitude of their effects varies across countries.
        KW  - gender wage gap
KW  - wage structure
KW  - occupational segregation
KW  - industrial segregation
KW  - discrimination
        ER  -