Using earnings functions estimates on an Egyptian establishment-level survey conducted in 1990, standard decomposition techniques of wage differentials show that both males and females have an earning disadvantage in the public enterprise and government sectors after correcting for a range of personal and job characteristics. Gender based pay discrimination is small in the public sector. In contrast, it is quite high by international comparisons in the private sector and takes place mainly by paying a pure rent premium to men. Further decomposition of the gender gap into components attributable to intra-occupational pay discrimination and inter occupational segregation reveal that the unexplained component is even higher at about 82 % of female pay in the private sector, with a large proportion (34.7% of female pay) attributable to segregation or entry barriers facing females in certain occupations. Quantile regression methods were used to examine the distribution of wage premia across occupations and wage quantiles.
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Find related papers by JEL classification: L33 - Industrial Organization - - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise - - - Boundaries of Public and Private Enterprise; Privatization; Contracting Out J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
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