Cepeda Emiliani, Laura; Barón, Juan D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In this paper we show the importance of subject of degree in explaining the gender wage gap in Colombia. In order to … minimize the influence of gender differences in experience, promotions, and job changes on the wage gap, we focus on college … explained by differences in subject of degree. Using a distributional decomposition, we find an increasing gender wage gap …