Les inégalités salariales de genre : expliquer l’injustifiable ou
justifier l’inexplicable
Danièle Meulders
Robert Plasman
François Rycx
In 2001 the gender wage gap in the European union was lying
between 6 % and 21 % (ECHP, full-timers). Gender wage gap clearly appears as
the core of the inequalities between men and women on the labor market. Using
recent results from a research program on the gender wage gap, we show that the
large impact of the sectoral and occupational factors in explaining the gender
wage gap are not mainly due to differences in characteristics of men and women
in employment. We also show that testing the job sharing theory is giving
different results for men and women and that the particularities of the
industrial relations system largely contribute to explain the size and the
national differences in the gender wage gap. The article also stresses the fact
that mainstream economic theory remains unable to explain what is usually
called the explained part of the gender wage gap as well as the unexplained
part.
Keywords :
Gender wage gap, feminist economics, human capital, segregation, wage equations.
• Des inégalités persistantes
• Les facteurs explicatifs des inégalités salariales de
genre
• Les inégalités salariales de genre dans les théories
économiques
• Les inégalités salariales de genre en Belgique et en Europe :
quelques résultats d’un programme de recherche
— Décomposition et dynamique des écarts salariaux de genre
— L’impact sectoriel des écarts salariaux de genre
— Les effets de la ségrégation dans l’emploi et de la distribution
des salaires
— Taux de profit des firmes et écarts salariaux de genre
• Conclusion
• Références