Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/51729 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5736
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
gender
wage gaps
matching
JEL: 
C14
D31
J16
O57
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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