Arbeitspapier
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.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 5736
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Comparative Studies of Countries
- Subject
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gender
wage gaps
matching
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Ñopo, Hugo
Daza, Nancy
Ramos, Johanna
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2011
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-201106013789
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Ñopo, Hugo
- Daza, Nancy
- Ramos, Johanna
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2011
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