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Estimation of Gender Wage Discrimination in the Portuguese Labour Market

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  • Amélia Bastos

    (ISEG - Instituto de Economia e Gestão)

  • Graça Leão Fernandes

    (ISEG - Instituto de Economia e Gestão)

  • José Passos

    (ISEG - Instituto de Economia e Gestão)

Abstract

Gender wage discrimination is a reality in the Portuguese labour market although little research has so far been carried out to measure its dimension. We think that economists should contribute to the knowledge of the dimension and significance of this phenomenon by giving guidelines for the definition of political measures to help reduce it. In this paper we measure the size of gender wage discrimination in the Portuguese labour market. Furthermore, we evaluate this measure for Portugal’s two main cities, Lisboa and Porto, using bootstrap techniques. The results suggest that in Porto gender wage discrimination would be expected to be lower than in Lisboa but with greater dispersion. The estimated values for discrimination range between numbers commonly found in studies of this kind.

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  • Amélia Bastos & Graça Leão Fernandes & José Passos, 2004. "Estimation of Gender Wage Discrimination in the Portuguese Labour Market," Notas Económicas, Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra, issue 19, pages 35-48, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:gmf:journl:y:2004:i:19:p:35-48
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    1. Ferreira Freire Guimarães, Carla Regina & Silva, Joaquim Ramos, 2016. "Pay gap by gender in the tourism industry of Brazil," Tourism Management, Elsevier, vol. 52(C), pages 440-450.
    2. Maria da Conceição Figueiredo & Elsa Fontainha, 2015. "Male and Female Wage Functions: A Quantile Regression Analysis using LEED and LFS Portuguese Databases," Working Papers Department of Economics 2015/01, ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Universidade de Lisboa.

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