TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Mussida, Chiara
AU  - Picchio, Matteo
        TI  - The Gender Wage Gap by Education in Italy
        PY  - 2012/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6428
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp6428
        AB  - This paper studies the gender wage gap by educational attainment in Italy using the 1994–2001 ECHP data. We estimate wage distributions in the presence of covariates and sample selection separately for highly and low educated men and women. Then, we decompose the gender wage gap across all the wage distribution and isolate the part due to gender differences in the remunerations of the similar characteristics. We find that women are penalized especially if low educated. When we control for sample selection induced by unobservables, the penalties for low educated women become even larger, above all at the bottom of the wage distribution.
        KW  - education
KW  - gender wage gap
KW  - counterfactual distributions
KW  - decompositions
KW  - hazard function
        ER  -