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BRIEF May 19, 2024

DECIG Seminar: May 2024

 

 

The Gender Pay Gap: Micro Sources and Macro Consequences

 

Iacopo Morchio (University of Bristol/UK), 

Christian Moser (Columbia Business School)

 

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Wednesday, May 22, 2024

10:00 ¨C 11:00 AM  (ET)

 

HYBRID SEMINAR: and room F-3K-E-400

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Abstract

We document that a large share of the gender pay gap in Brazil is due to women working at lower-paying employers. However, compared with that of men, women¡¯s revealed-preference ranking of employers is less increasing in pay. To interpret these facts, we develop an empirical equilibrium search model with endogenous gender differences in pay, amenities, and recruiting intensities across employers. The estimated model suggests that compensating differentials explain one-fifth of the gender pay gap, that there are significant output and welfare gains from eliminating gender differences, and that equal-treatment policies fail to close the gender pay gap.

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