Occupational licensing and the gender wage gap

We use a unique survey of the EU labor force to investigate the relationship between occupational licensing and the gender wage gap. We find that the gender wage gap is canceled for licensed self-employed workers. However, this closure of the gender wage gap is not mirrored by significant changes in the gender gap inhours worked. Our results are robust using decomposition methods, quantile regressions, different datasets, and selection correction.

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Year of publication:	2020
Authors:	Koumenta, Maria ; Pagliero, Mario ; Rostam-Afschar, Davud
Publisher:	Stuttgart : Universität Hohenheim, Fakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
Subject:	Licensing \| Gender gap \| Wages \| Female Labour Supply \| Quantile regression \| Selection

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Series:	Hohenheim Discussion Papers in Business, Economics and Social Sciences ; 13-2020
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	1736240498 [GVK] hdl:10419/225631 [Handle] RePEc:zbw:hohdps:132020 [RePEc]
Classification:	J16 - Economics of Gender ; J31 - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials by Skill, Training, Occupation, etc ; J44 - Professional Labor Markets and Occupations ; J71 - Discrimination
Source:	EconStor

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