Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? A Cross-Country Analysis of Gender Gaps

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Journal: Journal of Labor Economics
Year: 2008
Volume: 26
Issue: 4
Pages: 621-654

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Abstract

We analyze gender wage gaps correcting for sample selection induced by nonemployment. We recover wages for the nonemployed using alternative imputation techniques, simply requiring assumptions on the position of imputed wages with respect to the median. We obtain higher median wage gaps on imputed rather than actual wage distributions for several OECD countries. However, this difference is small in the United States, the United Kingdom, and most central and northern EU countries and becomes sizable in southern EU countries, where gender employment gaps are high. Selection correction explains nearly half of the observed negative correlation between wage and employment gaps. (c) 2008 by The University of Chicago Press. All rights reserved.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:ucp:jlabec:v:26:y:2008:i:4:p:621-654
Journal Field
Labor
Author Count
2
Added to Database
2026-01-26