Sources of gender wage gaps for skilled workers in Latin American countries

Marcela Perticará () and Mauricio Tejada ()
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Marcela Perticará: Universidad Alberto Hurtado
Mauricio Tejada: Universidad Alberto Hurtado

The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2022, vol. 20, issue 2, No 8, 439-463

Abstract: Abstract This paper identifies the impact of taste-based discrimination on labor market outcomes for nine Latin American countries. We use homogenized survey data on skilled workers to estimate a search and matching model of the labor market with explicit prejudice against women, participation decisions, and occupational choices. By gradually eliminating all potential sources of gender gaps, we find that prejudice is the only source that consistently impacts women, and plays a significant role in explaining gender wage gaps at the bottom of the wage distribution. Additionally, prejudice has strong negative effects on gender gaps with respect to participation, employment/unemployment, and self-employment rates.

Keywords: Discrimination; Search models; Structural estimation; Latin America (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C51 J64 J7 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/s10888-021-09500-y

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