The Trend over Time of the Gender Wage Gap in Italy

Chiara Mussida and Matteo Picchio

No 5932, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We analyse gender wage inequalities in Italy in the mid-1990s and in the mid-2000s. In this period important labour market developments occurred: institutional changes have loosened the use of flexible and atypical contracts; the female employment rates and educational levels have substantially increased. We identify the time trends of different components of the gender wage gap by estimating wage distributions in the presence of covariates and sample selection and by counterfactual microsimulations. We find that women swam against the tide: whilst the trend in female qualifications slightly reduced the gender wage gap, the gender relative trends in the wage structure significantly increased it.

Keywords: decompositions; counterfactual distributions; gender wage gap; labour market reforms; hazard function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 C41 J16 J31 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2011-08
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Published - published in: Empirical Economics, 2014, 46 (3), 1081-1110

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