Beneath the Surface: the Decline in Gender Injury Gap

Tiziano Razzolini (), Roberto Leombruni, Giovanni Mastrobuoni () and Mario Pagliero

No 286, Carlo Alberto Notebooks from Collegio Carlo Alberto

Abstract: There is little evidence on the joint evolution of gender differences in wages and other job amenities. We analyze gender differences in wages and workplace safety using 9 years of Italian administrative micro-level data. We document that a decline in the gender wage gap was accompanied by a narrowing of the gender gap in injury risk and an increased concentration of injuries among low-skilled female workers. A decomposition a la DiNardo et al. (1996) suggests that the main driver of the reduction in the wage gender gap is the sorting of workers across sectors and occupations, while the reduction in the injury gender gap and the increased concentration of injuries among low skilled female workers can be attributed to changes in unobservable job tasks and worker skills.

Keywords: Gender gap; workplace injury; job amenities; wage di erentials; polarization of hazardous tasks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J28 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2012
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Journal Article: Beneath the surface: The decline in gender injury gap (2014)
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