Occupational Licensing and the Gender Wage Gap

Maria Koumenta (), Mario Pagliero and Davud Rostam-Afschar
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Maria Koumenta: Queen Mary, University of London

No 563, Working Papers from ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

Abstract: We use a unique survey of the EU labor force to investigate the relationship between occupational licensing and the gender wage gap. We find that the gender wage gap is canceled for licensed self-employed workers. However, this closure of the gender wage gap is not mirrored by significant changes in the gender gap in hours worked. Our results are robust using decomposition methods, quantile regressions, different datasets, and selection correction.

Keywords: Licensing; Gender gap; Wages; Female Labour Supply; Quantile regression; Selection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J31 J44 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2020-11
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