Birds of a Feather Earn Together. Gender and Peer Effects at the Workplace

Julian Messina, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano () and Anastasia Terskaya ()
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Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano: Universidad de Alicante
Anastasia Terskaya: University of Barcelona

No 16721, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Utilizing comprehensive administrative data from Brazil, we investigate the impact of peer effects on wages, considering both within-gender and cross-gender dynamics. Since the average productivity of both individuals and their peers is unobservable, we estimate these values using worker fixed effects while accounting for occupational and firm sorting. Our findings reveal that within-gender peer effects have approximately twice the influence of cross-gender peer effects on wages for both males and females. Furthermore, we observe a reduction in the disparity between these two types of peer effects in settings characterized by greater gender equality.

Keywords: peer effects; gender; matched employer-employee data; identity; wage determination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J24 J31 M12 M54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 51 pages
Date: 2024-01
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