Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/226245 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 8543
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Do knowledge intense jobs exhibit lower gender gaps in wages? Here we use a linked employeremployee dataset of the entire Brazilian formal labor force to study the relationship between gender wage gaps and the knowledge intensity of industries and occupations. We find that employees in high-skilled occupations and industries experience lower gender wage gaps, and that the effect of knowledge intensity is stronger when the demand for skilled labor is high and the supply of skilled labor is low. We also find evidence that the gender wage gap of skilled workers, but not that of unskilled workers, decreases when knowledge intense industries grow. These effects are robust to controlling for individual, occupation, sector, and location characteristics. To address endogeneity concerns, we use a Bartik instrument based on labor demand shocks. Together, these findings suggest that competition for skilled labor in knowledge intense industries contributes to the reduction of gender wage gaps.
Subjects: 
knowledge intensity
economic development
labor markets
gender gaps
JEL: 
J20
O10
I25
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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