The issues of gender discrimination and segregation in the Italian labour market are analyzed in this paper, with a view to understanding whether the public sector is able to mitigate discriminatory outcomes. Based on the analysis of a sample of graduate workers observed 5 years after their degree, provided by the AlmaLaurea consortium, we find: (i) network-based job search channels are more intensely used by women and in the private sector, even when controlling for public examinations; (ii) vertical segregation in similar across sectors; (iii) women employed in the public sector are characterized by higher job satisfaction; (iv) in an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition of wage differ- entials across genders, the share attributable to discrimination in the public sector is lower.
Titolo: | Wage gaps and gender discrimination in the private and public sectors: the case of Italian graduate young workers | |
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Data di pubblicazione: | 2013 | |
Abstract: | The issues of gender discrimination and segregation in the Italian labour market are analyzed in this paper, with a view to understanding whether the public sector is able to mitigate discriminatory outcomes. Based on the analysis of a sample of graduate workers observed 5 years after their degree, provided by the AlmaLaurea consortium, we find: (i) network-based job search channels are more intensely used by women and in the private sector, even when controlling for public examinations; (ii) vertical segregation in similar across sectors; (iii) women employed in the public sector are characterized by higher job satisfaction; (iv) in an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition of wage differ- entials across genders, the share attributable to discrimination in the public sector is lower. | |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11367/42441 | |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio) |