The Gender Pay Gap among Full-Time and Part-Time Workers in Serbia: Experience during the COVID-19 Pandemic

This paper analyses the gender pay gap among full-time and part-time employees, focusing on the labour market in the Republic of Serbia. Using data from the annual household survey on income and living conditions, this paper examines whether the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the extent of the pay gap in the Republic of Serbia between the two groups of workers who can be defined as full-time and part-time employees in terms of the employment contract. Separate models were estimated for full-time and part-time employees in the wage sector using the 2019-2020 data sample. Applying this approach reveals differences in wages between men and women depending on working hours. The efficiency of full-time and part-time employed women in earning their potential wage is 9.3% and 19.8% lower than that of men, respectively. In Serbia, during the COVID-19 period, there was a significant decline in part-time employment for both men and women, but this trend continued after the crisis, showing a new reality in the labour market.