The gender wage gap in Peru 1986-2000: Evidence from a matching comparisions aproach



Título del documento: The gender wage gap in Peru 1986-2000: Evidence from a matching comparisions aproach
Revista: Económica (La Plata)
Base de datos: CLASE
Número de sistema: 000358132
ISSN: 0013-0419
Autores: 1
Instituciones: 1Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo, Departamento de Investigación, Washington, Distrito de Columbia. Estados Unidos de América
Año:
Periodo: Ene-Dic
Volumen: 50
Número: 1-2
Paginación: 9-37
País: Argentina
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Aplicado, descriptivo
Resumen en inglés Applying the methodology developed in Ñopo (2004), I analyze the evolution of the gender wage gap in Peru from 1986 to 2000. The advantage of such methodology is two-fold. First, it recognizes that the supports of observable characteristics distributions differ substantially. Second, it provides deeper insights regarding the distribution of the unexplained gender differences in earnings. For the period under analysis, males earn on average 45% more than females. This wage gap is composed of three additive elements: 11% differences in supports, 6% differences in distributions of individual characteristics and 28% unexplainable differences. About half of these unexplainable differences occur in the highest quintile of the wage distribution
Disciplinas: Economía,
Sociología,
Matemáticas
Palabras clave: Condiciones económicas,
Organización social,
Matemáticas aplicadas,
Pobreza,
Salarios,
Distribución del ingreso,
Perú,
Desigualdad social,
Estadísticas,
Econometría
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