Cepeda Emiliani, Laura; Barón, Juan D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In this paper we show the importance of subject of degree in explaining the gender wage gap in Colombia. In order to … explained by differences in subject of degree. Using a distributional decomposition, we find an increasing gender wage gap … across the distribution of wages (from 2% at the bottom to 15% at the top), although subject of degree explains a lower 30 …