Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/51490 
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Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 675
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department, Washington, DC
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

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