When evaluating observably similar loan applications from men and women, do loan officers favor men? This paper randomly assigned loan requests of variable amounts to a balanced sample of male and female prospective borrowers who then submitted the assigned loan requests to randomly assigned...

When evaluating observably similar loan applications from men and women, do loan officers favor men? This paper randomly assigned loan requests of variable amounts to a balanced sample of male and female prospective borrowers who then submitted the assigned loan requests to randomly assigned...

En pleno siglo XXI, la consecución de la igualdad efectiva en las relaciones laborales sigue siendo uno de los retos pendientes. Esta obra multidisciplinar se publica en el marco de la Cátedra de Relaciones Laborales, Diálogo Social y Bienestar Laboral de la Universidad de Murcia, cumpliendo...

It has been widely documented at the international level that women face various types of discrimination in the labor market. This paper contributes to characterizing “gender gaps” in the Argentine labor market. Using the Permanent Household Survey (Encuesta Permanente de Hogares, EPH) as...

This study applies the extension of the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition developed by Albrecht, Vuuren y Vroman (2009) to analyze the gender wage gap in Uruguay. The wage gap is increasing the upper part suggesting a glass ceiling in Uruguay. We also find a positive selection effect.

From a very general and broad perspective, Goldin's Pollution theory predicts that in those occupations where the presence of women is high or increasing, or in feminized labor locations, there is a decrease in the average wage. Labor areas where men are predominantly employed would, to a...