TY - JOUR
T1 - The evolution of the gender wage GAP in Colombia
T2 - 1994 and 2010
AU - Alvarado, Luz Karime Abadía
AU - de la Rica, Sara
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
PY - 2020/7/1
Y1 - 2020/7/1
N2 - This paper studies the evolution of the gender wage gap in Colombia at different points of wage distributions. Using DiNardo, Fortin, and Lemieux's (1996) decomposition, we find that the enormous increase in female workers' educational achievement has helped to reduce the gender gap, mainly at the top of the wage distribution. However, this effect has been countered by the reduction in the proportion of female workers in the public sector and those with indefinite contracts. Moreover, using the Arellano et al. (2017) methodology, we estimate the adjusted gender wage gap whilst controlling for sample selection. In both analysed years, our main finding was a clear glass-ceiling pattern that was slightly reduced in 2010.
AB - This paper studies the evolution of the gender wage gap in Colombia at different points of wage distributions. Using DiNardo, Fortin, and Lemieux's (1996) decomposition, we find that the enormous increase in female workers' educational achievement has helped to reduce the gender gap, mainly at the top of the wage distribution. However, this effect has been countered by the reduction in the proportion of female workers in the public sector and those with indefinite contracts. Moreover, using the Arellano et al. (2017) methodology, we estimate the adjusted gender wage gap whilst controlling for sample selection. In both analysed years, our main finding was a clear glass-ceiling pattern that was slightly reduced in 2010.
KW - Gender wage gap
KW - Glass ceiling pattern
KW - Quantile regression
KW - Sample selection
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85088659264&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.15446/cuad.econ.v39n81.73820
DO - 10.15446/cuad.econ.v39n81.73820
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85088659264
SN - 0121-4772
VL - 39
SP - 857
EP - 895
JO - Cuadernos de Economia (Colombia)
JF - Cuadernos de Economia (Colombia)
IS - 81
ER -
