OCCUPATIONS AND SALARIES OF QUALIFIED WOMEN IN BRAZIL

Paola Rodrigues Alves (), Solange de Cassia Inforzato de Souza (), Vanessa Fortunato de Paiva () and Magno Rogério Gomes ()
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Paola Rodrigues Alves: Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL)
Solange de Cassia Inforzato de Souza: Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL)
Vanessa Fortunato de Paiva: Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL)
Magno Rogério Gomes: Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL)

Revista de Economia Mackenzie (REM), 2019, vol. 16, issue 2, 120-144

Abstract: The objective of this study is to analyze the labor market of skilled women in Brazil from the perspective of occupational insertion and income inequalities. We used as a database to Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios (Pnad) of 2015 and the salary decomposition technique of Oaxaca-Blinder with correction of the sample selection. Empirical evidences show that there is greater participation of women in science and arts occupations, but the highest pay is in the middle-level technical professions. They also prove that qualified women with higher education earn less than men, and that there is high gender pay discrimination; and, moreover, salary differences and discrimination are higher as the level of qualification of women increases in Brazil.

Keywords: Female labor market; Occupations; Higher education; Discrimination. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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