Project data
| Project start date | 2020-02-28 |
| Project end date | 2023-02-27 |
| Project cost | 586782 PLN |
Lider
- Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), Collegium of Economic Analysis
Partners
- University of Warsaw, Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology
- National Information Processing Institute
Scientists frequently turn their attention to the difference between men’s and woman’s earnings, seeking to understand its causes and how it has evolved over time. Despite women having caught up with men in terms of education and professional experience—the lack of which was once considered a reason for their inequality—the pay gap remains. It is worth noting, however, that the gap has stopped widening.
The project aims to explain the difference between men’s and women’s earnings.
It comprises three working packages:
- A quantitative analysis of the difference between men’s and women’s earnings, and an analysis of pay gaps at the beginning of men’s and women’s careers. A heterogeneity analysis in the context of employers’ characteristics.
- A quantitative assessment of the difference between men’s and women’s earnings. An analysis of the impact of maternity on earnings.
- An analysis of men’s and women’s employment and earnings in the science sector. An analysis of adjustments in the gap in the context of the characteristics of various fields of study.
OPI PIB is involved in package 3.
Project manager: Prof. Iga Magda (Warsaw School of Economics – SGH).
Subsidies
The project is being undertaken as part of the OPUS competition under a three-year agreement with the National Science Centre signed on 28 February, 2020.