Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from the Hellenic Maritime Sector 1995-2002

Arvanitis, Stavros; Stamatopoulos, Theodoros V.; Thalassinos, Eleftherios Ioannis

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Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from the Hellenic Maritime Sector 1995-2002

Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov • Vol. 2 (51) - 2009 Series V: Economic Sciences

10 Pages Posted: 28 Apr 2013 Last revised: 9 Jan 2016

See all articles by Stavros Arvanitis

Eleftherios Ioannis Thalassinos

University of Piraeus - Department of Maritime Studies

Date Written: 2009

Abstract

The paper explores gender wage gap as well as educational level, work experience and age in the Hellenic maritime companies by utilizing the European Structure of Earnings Surveys of 1995 and 2002. The nonparametric statistical analysis used shows that even though the male female wage distributions were not identical in 1995, so discrimination was present, though, we did not find evidence of this gap in 2002. Hourly wage rate which proved to be independent of educational level, while dependent on work experience and age, and for both latter characteristics, much more for females than for males, may explain the elimination of the gender pay gap at the end of the investigation period.

Keywords: Gender Pay Gap, Male-Female Wages, Age, Educational Level, Work Experience, Inferential Non-parametric Statistics

JEL Classification: J16, J31

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Arvanitis, Stavros and Stamatopoulos, Theodoros V. and Thalassinos, Eleftherios Ioannis, Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from the Hellenic Maritime Sector 1995-2002 (2009). Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov • Vol. 2 (51) - 2009 Series V: Economic Sciences, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2257223