The Gender Gap: Looking at the Entire Distribution

Yanay Farja, Avi Tillman and Ori Zax

Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 2022, vol. 34, issue 1, 51-68

Abstract: We propose a new method of estimating wage differences among individuals from different populations, which is based on looking at the distribution of fixed effects from a wage regression. We use this method to compare males’ and females’ wage distribution at different levels of education and at different ages. In most cases, unobserved, time-constant factors increase the wage of males, compared to that of females, by a constant share. But this is not true when looking at the tails of the distribution. We also discuss the advantages of our method. JEL: J71, J31

Keywords: Discrimination; panel data models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1177/0260107920938544

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