1. Equal Pay research in Hungary and Belgium Bussum, the Netherlands April 15, 2008 Szilvia Borbely

2. EQUAL project „Equal pay for equal work!” January 2005-April 2008 Target Adapting and making to function innovative tool to increase female equal opportunities Tools  Website  Database  Content development  Partnership

3. Specialities  Adapting Dutch wageindicator  Combination of methods to create database  Including target persons to create database (needs assessment and training element)  Database: cross-country comparability  Developing trade union strategies

4. Hungarian database of 10000 samples  Representativity (male/female, age,scholarity,regions, NACE (19/29), ISCO)  Disparities –regional (max32%, min7%  White collar (26%), blue collar (19%) Gross wage EUR Net wage EUR Female531367 Male 670447 Wage gap% 2118

5. TCA I Explanation of gender wage gap  Belgium – 16,5%  Function related variables - characteristics of the jobs of men and women – complexitiy of jobs  Person-related variables-education  Company-related variable: low  Hungary-structural effect (-7%)+high discrimination effect (26%) due mainly to:  Jobs requiring higher or middle education (4%)  Education – higher education (23%)  Years in work (11-20 years: 35%)  Growing % of women in workplace: negative discrimination effect

6. TCA II: Working conditions of women and men with focus on the reconciliation of duties at work and in the family  Working time  Full-time, part-time  Organisation of working time  Flexibility and security  Flexibility in work-time organisation  Working contracts as condition of labour market flexibility  Training as condition of re-entrance into the labour market and labour market security  Stress at work

7. Some example Source WageIndicator dataset Sept. 2004-Sept. 2006; BérBarométer 5000 dataset, October 2006, Hungary

8. Some example

12. Problems, questions  Minimum requirement of sample number  Time schedule (database development:2006/2007 - yearly wage rise)  Gross or net wage?  Use hourly or monthly wage?  Methodology to calculate the pay gap