TY - UNPB
T1 - Are women still holding up half of heaven in Vietnam? The gender wage gap
AU - Liu, Amy Y.C.
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - The coexistence of the government sector, state-owned enterprises (SOEs), and private sector provides a natural setting to examine the impact of economic reform in Vietnam on gender earning differentials. The three sectors reflect different degrees of influence of the Socialist ideology, with the private sector most liberalised. Have women fared better during the transition into a market economy? One might expect, a priori, female workers in the private sector may be more likely to be discriminated against especially because employees can freely choose whom to employ. Using the Vietnam Living Standards Survey 1992-1993, this paper has found that gender wage differences are evident in the private sector and SOEs. Further, discrimination accounts for more of the gender wage gap in the private sector than in the SOEs.
AB - The coexistence of the government sector, state-owned enterprises (SOEs), and private sector provides a natural setting to examine the impact of economic reform in Vietnam on gender earning differentials. The three sectors reflect different degrees of influence of the Socialist ideology, with the private sector most liberalised. Have women fared better during the transition into a market economy? One might expect, a priori, female workers in the private sector may be more likely to be discriminated against especially because employees can freely choose whom to employ. Using the Vietnam Living Standards Survey 1992-1993, this paper has found that gender wage differences are evident in the private sector and SOEs. Further, discrimination accounts for more of the gender wage gap in the private sector than in the SOEs.
KW - discrimination
KW - gender earning differentials
KW - decomposition
KW - Vietnam
UR - https://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:idc:wpaper:idec01-11
UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228720810_Are_Women_Still_Holding_Up_Half_of_Heaven_in_Vietnam_The_Gender_Wage_Gap
M3 - Working paper
T3 - Asia Pacific School of Economics and Management Working Papers
BT - Are women still holding up half of heaven in Vietnam? The gender wage gap
PB - Australian National University
CY - Canberra
ER -