Occupational Licensing and the Gender Wage Gap

Mario Pagliero, Maria Koumenta and Davud Rostam-Afschar

No 15338, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: We use a unique survey of the EU labor force to investigate the relationship between occupational licensing and the gender wage gap. We find that the gender wage gap is canceled for licensed self-employed workers. However, this closure of the gender wage gap is not mirrored by significant changes in the gender gap in hours worked. Our results are robust using decomposition methods, quantile regressions, different datasets, and selection correction.

Keywords: Occupational licensing; Gender gap; Wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J31 J44 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-10
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