Gender pay gap in a highly qualified sector: evidence from administrative data
Resumen:
This paper studies the existence of gender pay gaps within the highly skilled profession of medicine in Uruguay. We focus on understanding whether the way an occupation is structured may impact income equality. We use administrative data from the Human Resources Control and Analysis System (SCARH) database, published by the Ministry of Public Health of Uruguay. We estimate the gross and conditional gender pay gaps among physicians for the entire period between 2008 and 2018. Furthermore, we evaluated two potential mechanisms that could explain part of the differences in physician earnings, specifically horizontal segregation (the concentration of women in certain specialities with lower salaries) and vertical segregation (the under representation of women in top hierarchical positions). Our results indicate differences in labour income between female and male physicians, and that horizontal and vertical segregation play a role in explaining these gaps.
Este artículo estudia la existencia de brechas de género en los ingresos laborales dentro de la profesión médica, altamente calificada, en Uruguay. Nos centramos en comprender si la forma en que se estructura una ocupación puede afectar la igualdad de ingresos. Utilizamos datos administrativos de la base de datos del Sistema de Análisis y Control de Recursos Humanos (SCARH), publicada por el Ministerio de Salud Pública de Uruguay. Estimamos las brechas de género en el ingreso laboral brutas y condicionadas entre los médicos para todo el período comprendido entre 2008 y 2018. Además, evaluamos dos mecanismos potenciales que podrían explicar parte de las diferencias en los ingresos de los médicos, específicamente la segregación horizontal (la concentración de mujeres en ciertas especialidades con salarios más bajos) y la segregación vertical (la baja representación de las mujeres en los puestos jerárquicos más altos). Nuestros resultados indican diferencias en los ingresos laborales entre médicos mujeres y varones, y que la segregación horizontal y vertical desempeña un papel clave a la hora de explicar estas brechas.
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Gender pay gaps Segregation Physicians Highly prestigious occupations Ocupaciones de alta calificación Brecha de género en ingresos Médicos Segregación ECONOMIA LABORAL SALARIOS POLITICA DE EMPLEO |
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| Universidad de la República | |
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| https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12008/41948 | |
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| Licencia Creative Commons Atribución - No Comercial - Sin Derivadas (CC - By-NC-ND 4.0) |
| Sumario: | This paper studies the existence of gender pay gaps within the highly skilled profession of medicine in Uruguay. We focus on understanding whether the way an occupation is structured may impact income equality. We use administrative data from the Human Resources Control and Analysis System (SCARH) database, published by the Ministry of Public Health of Uruguay. We estimate the gross and conditional gender pay gaps among physicians for the entire period between 2008 and 2018. Furthermore, we evaluated two potential mechanisms that could explain part of the differences in physician earnings, specifically horizontal segregation (the concentration of women in certain specialities with lower salaries) and vertical segregation (the under representation of women in top hierarchical positions). Our results indicate differences in labour income between female and male physicians, and that horizontal and vertical segregation play a role in explaining these gaps. |
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