Gender Wage Gap and Education: Case in Indonesia’s Labor Market

Statistical Discrimination with Fertility: Understanding the Gender Wage Gap and Other Labor Market Di¤erences

This paper provides an alternative explanation for gender discrimination. A woman’s fertility intentions are treated as the ultimate unobservable characteristic to employers. Women who intend to have children may become less productive in future if they plan to allocate less e¤ort to employment after childbearing. At a minimum, they will lose time due to delivery and breast-feeding. To the exte...

Gender Wage Discrimination in the Philippine Labor Market

This research seeks to quantify the extent that discrimination can explain the gender wage gap in the Philippine labor market. Today, it is fairly well established that women trail behind men in many domains in developing countries, and that this can potentially have far-reaching impacts on human and economic development. On average, women earn significantly less than men in the Philippines. It...

Wage Inequality in a Frictional Labor Market

Wage inequality in the United States has grown substantially in the past two decades. Standard supply-demand analysis in the empirics of inequality (e.g. Katz and Murphy (1992)) indicates that we may attribute some of this trend to an outward shift in the demand for high skilled labor. In this paper we examine a simple static channel in which the wage premium for skill may grow increased firm e...

Immigration, Labor Market and Wage Inequality

Caste, Female Labor Supply and the Gender Wage Gap in India: Boserup Revisited

A look at the spatial variation in male and female agricultural wages in India throws up a seeming paradox: gender differentials are the largest in the southern regions of India that are otherwise favourable to women. Boserup (1970) hypothesized that this is due to the greater labor force participation of women in these regions. This is not obvious as greater female labor supply could depress m...