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Gender contribution to income inequality

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  • Frédéric Chantreuil

    (CREM - Centre de recherche en économie et management - UNICAEN - Université de Caen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - UR - Université de Rennes - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, TEPP - Travail, Emploi et Politiques Publiques - UPEM - Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Isabelle Lebon

    (TEPP - Travail, Emploi et Politiques Publiques - UPEM - Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CREM - Centre de recherche en économie et management - UNICAEN - Université de Caen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - UR - Université de Rennes - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

This note suggests a new way of determining the contribution of gender to wage inequality as part of the framework based on the Shapley approach. The proposed methodology is illustrated using French data over the period 1970–2003.

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  • Frédéric Chantreuil & Isabelle Lebon, 2015. "Gender contribution to income inequality," Post-Print halshs-01184086, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-01184086
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.05.009
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    1. Isabelle Lebon & Jean-Pascal Guironnet & Frédéric Gavrel & Frédéric Chantreuil, 2016. "La contribution des écarts de rémunération entre les femmes et les hommes à l’inégalité des rémunérations dans la fonction publique : une approche par la décomposition des inégalités," Économie et Statistique, Programme National Persée, vol. 488(1), pages 151-168.
    2. Chantreuil, Frédéric & Fourrey, Kévin & Lebon, Isabelle & Rebiere, Therese, 2020. "Decomposing US Income Inequality à La Shapley: Race Matters, but Gender Too," IZA Discussion Papers 12950, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    3. Ho Thi Hoa & Pham Van Hieu & Nguyen Thanh Thao & Hoang Hai Ninh & Le Thi Thuy, 2020. "Research on Income Inequality by Gender in Vietnam," International Journal of Human Resource Studies, Macrothink Institute, vol. 10(3), pages 206222-2062, December.
    4. Sulistyaningrum, Eny & Tjahjadi, Alexander Michael, 2022. "Income Inequality in Indonesia: Which Aspects Cause the Most?," MPRA Paper 115987, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    5. Frédéric Chantreuil & Sébastien Courtin & Kevin Fourrey & Isabelle Lebon, 2019. "A note on the decomposability of inequality measures," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer;The Society for Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 53(2), pages 283-298, August.
    6. Chantreuil, Frédéric & Fourrey, Kévin & Lebon, Isabelle & Rebière, Thérèse, 2021. "Magnitude and evolution of gender and race contributions to earnings inequality across US regions," Research in Economics, Elsevier, vol. 75(1), pages 45-59.
    7. Ayal Kimhi & Nirit Hanuka-Taflia, 2019. "What drives the convergence in male and female wage distributions in Israel? A Shapley decomposition approach," The Journal of Economic Inequality, Springer;Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, vol. 17(3), pages 379-399, September.
    8. Ollier, Maxime & Jayet, Pierre-Alain & Humblot, Pierre, 2024. "An assessment of the distributional impacts of autonomous adaptation to climate change from European agriculture," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 222(C).
    9. M. Costa, 2019. "The evaluation of gender income inequality by means of the Gini index decomposition," Working Papers wp1130, Dipartimento Scienze Economiche, Universita' di Bologna.

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    JEL classification:

    • D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
    • C71 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Cooperative Games

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