The Gender Wage Gap by Education in Italy

CentER Discussion Paper Series No. 2012-021

30 Pages Posted: 12 Mar 2012

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Chiara Mussida

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Matteo Picchio

Marche Polytechnic University - Department of Economic and Social Science; IZA Institute of Labor Economics; SHERPPA - Ghent University

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Date Written: March 12, 2012

Abstract

This paper studies the gender wage gap by educational attainment in Italy using the 1994–2001 ECHP data. We estimate wage distributions in the presence of covariates and sample selection separately for highly and low educated men and women. Then, we decompose the gender wage gap across all the wage distribution and isolate the part due to gender differences in the remunerations of the similar characteristics. We find that women are penalized especially if low educated. When we control for sample selection induced by unobservables, the penalties for low educated women become even larger, above all at the bottom of the wage distribution.

Keywords: gender wage gap, education, counterfactual distributions, decompositions

JEL Classification: C21, C41, J16, J31, J71

Suggested Citation

Mussida, Chiara and Picchio, Matteo, The Gender Wage Gap by Education in Italy (March 12, 2012). CentER Discussion Paper Series No. 2012-021, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2020192 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2020192

Chiara Mussida (Contact Author)

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