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Not Just Education: The Gender Wage Gap in the Albanian Labor Markets Through Occupational Segregation, Work Experience, and Child Care

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Understanding the mechanisms of gender discrimination in the labor market is especially important due to the influences that it may have on income inequality, education of future generations, occupational distribution, women’s position and opportunities, intergenerational inequality, and ultimately poverty. Specific to the case of Albania, this issue becomes especially important given the prospect of the country joining the European Union. If existing issues of inequality are not adequately addressed, Albania runs the risk of facing wage inequalities increasing even further, if women do not have the skills needed for the European markets and become even less competitive. This chapter estimates the gender wage gap and the different sources that account for such disparity. The findings indicate that education is key and should be given special consideration by policy makers, but other important sources such as occupational segregation, work experience, and child care also play a crucial role.

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Notes

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    The notation used in this section derives mainly from Lemieux (2002).

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    This number is calculated by taking the exponential of the mean log wage difference between females and males, subtracting 1, and multiplying by 100 to get the percentage value.

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  1. Department of Economics and Finance, University of New York, Tirana, Rr: Komuna e Parisit, Tirana, 1000, Albania

    Juna Miluka

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    Caterina Ruggeri Laderchi

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    Sara Savastano

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Miluka, J. (2013). Not Just Education: The Gender Wage Gap in the Albanian Labor Markets Through Occupational Segregation, Work Experience, and Child Care. In: Ruggeri Laderchi, C., Savastano, S. (eds) Poverty and Exclusion in the Western Balkans. Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion and Well-Being, vol 8. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4945-4_10

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