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Gender Discrimination and Worker Selectivity: A Comparison of the Self-employed and Wage Earners

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  • Jin Hwa Jung
  • Kang-Shik Choi

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This study compares the size and nature of the gender earnings differentials for the self-employed and wage earners in Korea, taking into account the workers’ self-selection of each employment type. The two-stage estimates of the earnings equation, corrected for worker selectivity, are used to decompose the gender earnings differentials into productivity-related and discriminatory factors. Our results suggest that the size of the gender earnings gap is larger in the wage sector than in the self-employment sector, but not by large margin, and so is the discrimination effect when not controlled for worker selectivity. With worker selectivity controlled, the discrimination effect is greatly intensified in the wage sector, while it becomes not significant in the self-employment sector. These findings imply that the observed gender earnings gap in the wage sector is largely ascribed to discrimination against women, while the gender earnings gap in the self-employment sector is mostly due to productivity difference that, in part, is caused by worker selectivity.

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  • Jin Hwa Jung & Kang-Shik Choi, 2017. "Gender Discrimination and Worker Selectivity: A Comparison of the Self-employed and Wage Earners," Global Economic Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 46(3), pages 251-270, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:glecrv:v:46:y:2017:i:3:p:251-270
    DOI: 10.1080/1226508X.2017.1305284
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