From Occupational Segregation to Wage Discrimination by Gender

Abstract

Although the economic approach to the study of discrimination is almost forty years old (it began with Becker’s famous Economics of Discrimination, 1957), there has been since then and almost without interruption a constant flow of studies of discrimination by gender or race by economists. This field of research has also aroused the interest of econometricians since the statistical procedures required to obtain a correct estimate of the extent of discrimination are often quite complex (see Neuman and Silber, 1994, for a recent collection of papers on the Econometrics of Labor Market Discrimination and Segregation).