Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/238306 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 95
Publisher: 
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza (DISCE), Milano
Abstract: 
This paper presents a model where wage differences between men and women arise from taste-based discrimination and monopsonistic mechanisms. We show how preferences against women affect heterogeneity in firms' pay policies in the context of an imperfect labour market, deriving a test for the presence of taste-based discrimination and of other firm-level mechanisms driving the gender wage gap, in particular compensating wage differentials. These results inform an analysis of sex pay differences in the Italian manufacturing sector showing that preferences for workplaces providing more flexible schedules are a significant determinant of the gender wage gap. Taste-based discrimination mechanisms appear to be significant as well, but small in size.
Subjects: 
collective bargaining
labour demand
employment
industrial relations
minimum wage
JEL: 
J01
J08
J21
J23
J38
J52
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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