TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Messina, Julián
AU  - Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anna
AU  - Terskaya, Anastasia
        TI  - Birds of a Feather Earn Together. Gender and Peer Effects at the Workplace
        PY  - 2024/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 16721
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp16721
        AB  - Utilizing comprehensive administrative data from Brazil, we investigate the impact of peer effects on wages, considering both within-gender and cross-gender dynamics. Since the average productivity of both individuals and their peers is unobservable, we estimate these values using worker fixed effects while accounting for occupational and firm sorting. Our findings reveal that within-gender peer effects have approximately twice the influence of cross-gender peer effects on wages for both males and females. Furthermore, we observe a reduction in the disparity between these two types of peer effects in settings characterized by greater gender equality.
        KW  - peer effects
KW  - gender
KW  - matched employer-employee data
KW  - identity
KW  - wage determination
        ER  -