The Role of the Gender Wage Gap in Overall Wage Inequality: A Quantitative Exercise

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作者：
Maroto, Marco A. Badilla [1 ,2 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Costa Rica, San Pedro, Costa Rica
[2] Univ Calif Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
来源：
ECONOMIA-JOURNAL OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION | 2020年 / 21卷 / 01期
关键词：
Gender; inequality; restriction; occupation; EARNINGS; FIRMS;
D O I：
10.1353/eco.2020.0010
中图分类号：
F [经济];
学科分类号：
02 ;
摘要：
This article presents a novel wage inequality decomposition to analyze the impact of the gender wage gap on overall wage inequality. The decomposition determines the maximum relative wage between genders allowed before it begins to increase total inequality. In addition, I present a structural model of the labor market to evaluate the impact of establishing restrictions on intra-occupational gender pay gaps within each firm. Specifically, I introduce a restriction in which the average wage of one gender cannot exceed alpha times the average wage of the other gender. For alpha = 2, the model predicts a 10 percent wage inequality reduction. However, with a tighter restriction of alpha = 1, the inequality reduction dissipates and reverses into a wage inequality increase.
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页码：169 / 207
页数：39
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