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Gender earnings gaps in the world

This paper documents gender disparities in labor earnings for sixty-four countries around the world. Disparities are partially attributed to gender differences in observable socio-demographic and job characteristics. These characteristics are used to match males and females such that gender earnings disparities are computed only among individuals with the same characteristics, as in Ñopo (2008). After comparing males and females with the same characteristics we found that the earnings gap falls within a range between 8% and 48% of average females' earnings, being more pronounced in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. The unexplained earnings gaps are more pronounced among part-time workers and those with low education.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 5736

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Comparative Studies of Countries
Thema
gender
wage gaps
matching

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Ñopo, Hugo
Daza, Nancy
Ramos, Johanna
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2011

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-201106013789
Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Ñopo, Hugo
  • Daza, Nancy
  • Ramos, Johanna
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2011

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