The firm-wage gender gap and formal sector churn over the life cycle

Ihsaan Bassier and Leila Gautham

No wp-2024-80, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: We find that women sorting into lower wage firms explains nearly half of the gender wage gap in South Africa, using matched employer-employee panel data covering the universe of formal sector workers. Sorting varies considerably over the life cycle: the firm-wage gender gap is negligible for the youngest workers, grows steeply for 25-35-year-olds (i.e. typical child-rearing years), and narrows for older workers.

Keywords: Wage premium; Gender gap; Wage inequality; Sorting; Worker mobility; Firm-level analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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