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dc.titleChanges in Argentina's Gender Earning Gap: An Analysis from 1995 to 2021
dc.contributor.authorUrquidi, Manuel
dc.contributor.authorChalup, Miguel
dc.contributor.orgunitLabor Markets Division
dc.coverageArgentina
dc.date.available2023-05-23T00:05:00
dc.date.issue2023-05-23T00:05:00
dc.description.abstractThe earnings gap between men and women in Latin America is a barrier to achieving gender equality and sustainable development. In Argentina, this gap persists even though in many cases women have a better employment profile than men, suggesting the existence of gender biases. It is also observed that this gap is larger among workers in the informal sector. There is also a heterogeneous earnings difference in favor of men in most occupations. To analyze the gender gap in labor earnings in Argentina between 1995 and 2021, this study uses the permanent household surveys of the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC), harmonized by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and presents two methodologies to estimate it: the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition and the Ñopo decomposition. Although an analysis of over more than two decades, where gender discrimination was verified, a clear trend of reduction or increase in the labor earnings gap between men and women was not observed during the considered period. This indicates that additional efforts are required to understand the observed disparity. The analysis shows that although the total gap has been reduced - as has happened in many other countries in the region - this reduction is generally related to the explained gap and not to a reduction in the unexplained gap, which persists over time.
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dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0004922
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Changes-in-Argentinas-Gender-Earning-Gap-An-Analysis-from-1995-to-2021.pdf
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/spanish/document/Brecha-de-genero-en-los-ingresos-laborales-en-Argentina-un-analisis-de-su-evolucion-en-el-periodo-1995-2021.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectWomen
dc.subjectLabor
dc.subjectWage Gap
dc.subjectWage
dc.subjectGender
dc.subjectWorkforce and Employment
dc.subjectEconomy
dc.subjectPopulation Aging
dc.subjectGender Wage Gap
dc.subjectWage Discrimination
dc.subjectFemale Employment
dc.subjectLabor Market
dc.subjectLabor Force
dc.subjectGender Gap
dc.subject.jelcodeJ16 - Economics of Gender • Non-labor Discrimination
dc.subject.jelcodeJ31 - Wage Level and Structure • Wage Differentials
dc.subject.jelcodeJ71 - Discrimination
dc.subject.keywordsGender Economics;earnings gap;discrimination
dc.typeTechnical Notes
idb.identifier.pubnumberIDB-TN-02714
idb.operationRG-T4242
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