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| Title: | | The gender wage gap in Peru 1986-2000: Evidence from a matching comparisons approach  |
| Authors: | | Ñopo, Hugo |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Working paper // Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department 675 |
| Abstract: | | Applying the methodology developed in Ñopo (2004), this paper analyzes the evolution of the gender wage gap in Peru from 1986 to 2000. This methodology has two advantages. First, it recognizes that the supports of observable characteristics distributions differ substantially. Second, it provides deeper insights regarding the distribution of the unexplained gender differences in earnings. For the period under analysis, males earn on average 45 percent more than females. This wage gap is composed of three additive elements: 11 percent differences in supports, 6 percent differences in distributions of individual characteristics and 28 percent unexplainable differences. About half of these unexplainable differences occur in the highest quintile of the wage distribution. |
| Subjects: | | Matching, Non-parametric Gender Wage Gap Latin America |
| JEL: | | C14 D31 J16 O54 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Research Department Working Papers, Inter-American Development Bank
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