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Decomposing the Gender Wage Gap with Sample Selection Adjustment: Evidence from Colombia

Economic Analysis Review

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Title Decomposing the Gender Wage Gap with Sample Selection Adjustment: Evidence from Colombia
 
Creator Badel, Alejandro
Peña, Ximena
 
Subject Gender gap, Mincer, wage, semiparametric, quantile regression, selection.
 
Description Despite the remarkable improvement of female labor market characteristics, a sizeable gender wage gap exists in Colombia. We employ quantile regression techniques to examine the degree to which current small differences in the distribution of observable characteristics can explain the gender gap. We find that the gap is largely explained by gender differences in the rewards to labor market characteristics and not by differences in the distribution of characteristics. We claim that Colombian women experience both a “glass ceiling effect’’ and also (what we call) a “quicksand floor effect” because gender differences in returns to characteristics primarily affect women at the top and the bottom of the distribution. Also, self selection into the labor force is crucial for gender gaps: if all women participated in the labor force, the observed gap would be roughly 50% larger at all quantiles
 
Publisher Universidad Alberto Hurtado - Facultad de Economía y Negocios
 
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Date 2011-01-05
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.rae-ear.org/index.php/rae/article/view/328
 
Source Revista de Análisis Económico - Economic Analysis Review; Vol 25, No 2 (2010); 169-191
Revista de Análisis Económico – Economic Analysis Review; Vol 25, No 2 (2010); 169-191
0718-8870
0716-5927
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.rae-ear.org/index.php/rae/article/view/328/497