Wage Discrimination against Women in Baltic Countries

Abstract

The paper is devoted on the wage differences betwee n men and women in Baltic countries. It aims to estimate the unexplain ed gender pay gap cleaned at least partially by effect of intra household specia lization on wage. To estimate the unexplained gender pay gap, we use European Uni on Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) data and apply the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition accompanied by matching procedure. The resul ts show that to take intrahousehold specialization into account led to a decr ease in the unexplained gender wage differences however wage differences betwe en men and women persists. The unexplained gender pay gap, which could be ue to wage discrimination against women reaches approximately 11 percent in Latvia and Lithuania. It is significantly higher in Estonia where it amou nts about 21 percent to disad-