Diferenciais de salário e discriminação por sexo no mercado de trabalho em Pernambuco - 2017

Abstract

In face of the problem of inequality between men and women in the labor market, this study proposes to analyze wage differentials by sex in Pernambuco in 2017 in order to distinguish the parts that can be attributed to differences of qualifications and to the discrimination. For this, the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) method is used to estimate income equations based on the Mincer equation for both sexes and the Oaxaca decomposition in the measurement of discrimination. The mentioned procedures were carried out from the microdata bank of the Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios Contínua (PNADC) available for 2017. As main result, in the state, for that year, women earned less than they should and discrimination in the labor market cannot be denied as cause.