The Gender Wage Gap Among Young People in Italy

Francesco Pastore and Izabela Marcinkowska ()
Additional contact information
Izabela Marcinkowska: CELPE University of Salerno, University of Warsaw, http://www.goldenline.pl/izabela-marcinkowska

CELPE Discussion Papers from CELPE - CEnter for Labor and Political Economics, University of Salerno, Italy

Abstract: This paper provides evidence of the gender wage gap among young people (18-24) in Italy based on the YUSE data set and involves the Oaxaca and Ransom (1994) decomposition of the unconditional gender wage gap into discrimination and productivity components. About 70% of the overall gap is unexplained, a component which is higher than among adults. Almost 11% of the gap is explained by segregation of women in low wage industries. In the Northern Veneto, the explained component of the gap is almost double that in the Southern Campania (36.4%). This is clear evidence of the remarkable discrimination that young women experience especially in Southern regions, similar to the adult women.

Keywords: Gender Wage Gap; Returns to Education; Young People; Italy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 J16 J3 J7 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ltv
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www3.unisa.it/uploads/rescue/784/1048/82_dp.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sal:celpdp:82

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CELPE Discussion Papers from CELPE - CEnter for Labor and Political Economics, University of Salerno, Italy via Giovanni Paolo II, 132, 84084 - Fisciano (SA), ITALY. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Roberto Dell'Anno ().