The evolution of the gender wage gap in Colombia: 1994 and 2010

This paper studies the evolution of the gender wage gap in Colombia at different points of wage distributions. Using DiNardo, Fortin, and Lemieux’s (1996) decomposition, we find that the enormous increase in female workers’ educational achievement has helped to reduce the gender gap, mainly at the...

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Published in:	Cuadernos de Economía
Main Authors:	Luz Karime Abadía Alvarado, Sara De la Rica
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Universidad Nacional de Colombia 2020-07-01
Subjects:	Gender wage gap glass ceiling pattern quantile regression sample selection
Online Access:	https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/ceconomia/article/view/73820

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