TY - JOUR N2 - The aim of this paper was to estimate the gender wage gap in Poland and in the 16 NUTS2 Polish regions in 2010, and to verify the predictions of the spatial monopsony model for Poland with a newly created, harmonized database for wages of individuals in Poland. According to the model, the unexplained part of the gender wage gap, identified with wage discrimination, tend to be lower in regions with more competition between employers. The results of the analyses performed in this paper show that in more urbanized regions the average wages are higher than in the rural ones. In each of the 16 NUTS2 Polish regions, women earn less than men. Raw differences in wages between men and women are largest in the most urbanized regions but a significant part of the differences in those regions can be explained by differences in workers’ characteristics, especially by different sectoral structure of employment. The part of the gender wage gap which remains unexplained, and in the literature is commonly attached to discrimination, is the highest in rural regions of Eastern Poland in line with the predictions of the spatial monopsony model. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/103704/PDF/mainFile.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/103704 PY - 2016 IS - No 2 EP - 141 DO - 10.24425/cejeme.2016.119190 KW - gender wage gap KW - Poland KW - regional labour markets A1 - Majchrowska, Aleksandra A1 - Strawiński, Paweł PB - Oddział PAN w Łodzi DA - 30.06.2016 T1 - Regional Differences in Gender Wage Gaps in Poland: New Estimates Based on Harmonized Data for Wages SP - 115 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/103704 T2 - Central European Journal of Economic Modelling and Econometrics ER -