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Job Placement: Gender Differences and Consequences on Welfare

Brazilian Review of Econometrics

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Title Job Placement: Gender Differences and Consequences on Welfare
Job Placement: Gender Differences and Consequences on Welfare
 
Creator de Barros, Ricardo Paes; IPEA
Corseuil, Carlos Henrique; IPEA
dos Santos, Daniel Domingues; IPEA and PUC/RJ
Firpo, Sergio Pinheiro; UC Berkeley
 
Subject Gender disc rimination; Income distribution and Poverty
D63; J71; J31; J16
Gender disc rimination; Income distribution and Poverty
D63; J71; J31; J16
 
Description In the recent period, the qualitative dimension of the women participation in the labor force has improved quickly, in response to cultural and economic changes. In Brazil, many authors have pointed that women have a higher level of schooling than men, which should result, ceteris paribus, in better professional opportunities. However people claim that it is not observed neither in Brazil nor anywhere else, which results in a welfare loss. It's interesting to study how t he welfare would change if t he women and men have the same chances in the job market. In this paper, we propose how to simulate this hypothetical world. We found that the increase in t he women's participation in the labor market would generate just an insignificant effect over the familiar welfare
No periodo recente, a participação das mulheres na força de trabalho tem melhorado rapidamente, de maneira qualitativa e quantitativa, em resposta a mudanças culturais e economicas. No Brasil, diversos autores tem apontado que as mulheres apresentam nfvel educacional medio superior ao dos homens, 0 que deveria resultar, caeteris paribus, em melhores oportunidades de emprego. Esta prediçao nao e, contudo, verificada empiricamente, resultando numa perda de bem estar. A mensuração desta perda e 0 objeto desta investigação, e sera feita atraves de um exerdcio contrafactual onde sao oferecidas as mulheres chances semelhantes as dos homens no mercado de trabalho. Os resultados, todavia, revelam que a melhora no padrao de inserção feminino no mercado de trabalho tem efeitos bastante limit ados sobre 0 b ern estar familiar.
 
Publisher Sociedade Brasileira de Econometria
 
Date 2001-05-01
 
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Identifier http://bibliotecadigital.fgv.br/ojs/index.php/bre/article/view/3194
10.12660/bre.v21n12001.3194
 
Source Brazilian Review of Econometrics; Vol 21, No 1 (2001); 137-171
Brazilian Review of Econometrics; Vol 21, No 1 (2001); 137-171
1980-2447
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://bibliotecadigital.fgv.br/ojs/index.php/bre/article/view/3194/2078