How rankings disguise gender inequality: A comparative analysis of cross-country gender equality rankings based on adjusted wage gaps.

ABSTRACT: Methods for estimating the scope of unjustified inequality differ in their sensitivity to address institutional and structural deficiencies. In the case of gender wage gaps, adjusting adequately for individual characteristics requires prior assessment of several important deficiencies, primarily whether a given labor market is characterized by gendered selection into employment, gendered segmentation and whether these mechanisms differ along the distribution of wages. Given that countries are characterized by differentiated prevalence of these deficiencies, ranking countries on gender wage gaps is a challenging task. Whether a country is perceived as more equal than others depends on the interaction between the method of adjusting gender wage gap for individual characteristics and the prev

SUBMITTER: Tanska KG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7641444 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature