Gender employment discrimination and product market competition: evidence for Brazil

Débora Meireles, Ricardo Da Silva Freguglia and Carlos Henrique Corseuil

Applied Economics Letters, 2021, vol. 28, issue 17, 1437-1440

Abstract: This paper aims to test empirical implications of the classical Beckerian theory on discrimination against women in Brazil. Specifically, we examine how the relationship between women’s relative employment and firm performance varies with its market power. Using a panel of longitudinal microdata linking information at firm level from a matched employer-employee data (RAIS) and a firm level survey with detailed information on firm performance (PIA-Empresa) from 2002 to 2013, we propose a new measure for women’s relative employment. In general, our results indicate a positive and significant relationship between relative employment of women and profitability for firms with high market power. We also find that the way the relationship between relative employment of women and profit depends on market power is strongly affected by how women relative employment is measured. This relationship is much more stable when this variable is measured by the index we propose.

Date: 2021
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