Gender wage differences in the Philippines labour market.
This study aims to determine the factors contributing to the gender wage gap in the Philippines, using 2006 Labour Force Survey (LFS) data, by decomposing the gender gap along the entire conditional distribution of wages. We use the newly available STATA module rqdeco, which generalizes the Oaxaca-B...
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| author | Choong, Elizabeth Jia Yun. Chua, Kit Theng. Koh, Shou Wen. |
| author2 | Christos Sakellariou |
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| description | This study aims to determine the factors contributing to the gender wage gap in the Philippines, using 2006 Labour Force Survey (LFS) data, by decomposing the gender gap along the entire conditional distribution of wages. We use the newly available STATA module rqdeco, which generalizes the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition to any quantile of the earnings distribution.
As opposed to most other countries, women in the Philippines earn more than men on average, due to their superior endowments of earnings generating characteristics, such as education. However, after applying the coefficients from the male earnings functions to female characteristics, results that a certain extent of discrimination against females does exist (the coefficients component in the decompositions is significantly positive). We also find evidence of a sticky floor as the counterfactual gender wage gap is more prominent at lower quantiles of the wage distribution. Our results are compared to those in Sakellariou (2004) for the Philippines, which used 1999 data. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/354972019-12-10T11:23:44Z Gender wage differences in the Philippines labour market. Choong, Elizabeth Jia Yun. Chua, Kit Theng. Koh, Shou Wen. Christos Sakellariou School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences::Economic development::Philippines This study aims to determine the factors contributing to the gender wage gap in the Philippines, using 2006 Labour Force Survey (LFS) data, by decomposing the gender gap along the entire conditional distribution of wages. We use the newly available STATA module rqdeco, which generalizes the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition to any quantile of the earnings distribution. As opposed to most other countries, women in the Philippines earn more than men on average, due to their superior endowments of earnings generating characteristics, such as education. However, after applying the coefficients from the male earnings functions to female characteristics, results that a certain extent of discrimination against females does exist (the coefficients component in the decompositions is significantly positive). We also find evidence of a sticky floor as the counterfactual gender wage gap is more prominent at lower quantiles of the wage distribution. Our results are compared to those in Sakellariou (2004) for the Philippines, which used 1999 data. Bachelor of Arts 2010-04-19T09:05:05Z 2010-04-19T09:05:05Z 2010 2010 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/35497 en Nanyang Technological University 30 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Social sciences::Economic development::Philippines Choong, Elizabeth Jia Yun. Chua, Kit Theng. Koh, Shou Wen. Gender wage differences in the Philippines labour market. |
| title | Gender wage differences in the Philippines labour market. |
| title_full | Gender wage differences in the Philippines labour market. |
| title_fullStr | Gender wage differences in the Philippines labour market. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Gender wage differences in the Philippines labour market. |
| title_short | Gender wage differences in the Philippines labour market. |
| title_sort | gender wage differences in the philippines labour market |
| topic | DRNTU::Social sciences::Economic development::Philippines |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/35497 |
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