OCCUPATIONAL SEGREGATION BY GENDER AND GENDER WAGE GAPS IN CROATIA

This paper is concerned to explore gender differences in occupation and sector of employment and gender wage gaps in Croatia. To examine the degree of occupational segregation and to assess if there is tendency for it to decline, we calculate Duncan and Duncan dissimilarity indices for Croatia for different years. We also compute dissimilarity indices for Croatia and ten other transition countries distinguishing by educational attainment. Furthermore, we compute the relative female earnings expressed as a percentage of male earnings for Croatia and ten other transition countries for comparisons. Our main findings are as follows: (i) degree of occupational segregation in Croatia has not been changing significantly over time and results suggest that it has no tendency to decline; (ii) the degree of occupational segregation is lower for highly educated categories of working force in Croatia, which is also the case in the EU15 countries, Latvia Lithuania, Hungary and Slovenia, and (iii) the relative female earnings expressed as percentage of male earnings on the base of average gross monthly earnings in Croatia are relatively high in comparison with other transition countries