Wage discrimination by gender and race in Paraíba and João Pessoa

Alexsandro Gonçalves Da Silva Prado (), José Alderir da Silva (), Francisco Danilo da Silva Ferreira (), Thiago Geovane Pereira Gomes (), Vagner dos Santos Torres () and Rodolfo Herald da Costa Campos ()
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Alexsandro Gonçalves Da Silva Prado: Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-à rido (Ufersa)
José Alderir da Silva: Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-à rido (Ufersa)
Francisco Danilo da Silva Ferreira: Insper
Thiago Geovane Pereira Gomes: Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte (Uern)
Vagner dos Santos Torres: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)
Rodolfo Herald da Costa Campos: Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte (Uern)

Revista de Economia Mackenzie (REM), 2023, vol. 20, issue 1, 58-91

Abstract: This article aims to analyze whether there was wage discrimination by gender and race in Paraíba and in its capital, João Pessoa, in 2017. The empirical strategy consists of using Mincerian equations that will seek to capture the effects of pro-ductive characteristics and the labor market. work. To achieve this objective, two methods are employed. The first part consists of using the Oaxaca-Blinder (1973) decomposition to verify, through the wage averages of the Mincerian equations, the gross wage differential, focusing on the portion of the wage gap attributed to the explained part (workers’ characteristics) and the unexplained part (“possible discrimination†). The second method applies RIF-regressions to estimate the in-come equations for three quantiles: 25°, 50° and 75°. The results indicate that the productive attributes help in the salary differential between men and women, and the unexplained component indicates that the discriminatory effect tends to in-crease the difference between these agents. Finally, the results of the RIF-regres-sions suggest that there is wage discrimination among all groups studied along the sample quantiles. It was also observed that higher education contributed posi-tively in all analyzed samples.

Keywords: decomposition of Oaxaca; university education; wage discrimina-tion; RIF-regression; mincerian equations. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J01 J31 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.5935/1808-2785/rem.v20n1p.58-91

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