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2015
The reversal of the gender pay gap among public-contestselected young employees
The reversal of the gender pay gap among public-contestselected young employees
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This paper analyzes the effect of public-contest recruitment on earnings by applying an extended version of the Oaxaca-Blinder model with double selection to microdata on Italy. We find that the gender pay gap vanishes among public-contest selected employees, and even reverses in favor of women (-17.4%) in the young sample. The reversal is because public contests are merit-based and gender-fair screening devices. They are merit-based because selected employees possess higher productive characteristics than unselected ones, both women and men. They are gender-fair because the coefficients component in the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition is never significant among public-contest recruited employees, either with or without selection. On the contrary, among employees not hired by public contest the gender pay gap is positive and significant (7.6%), and it is entirely due to coefficients, that is to discrimination in the career path.
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Hohenheim discussion papers in business, economics and social sciences; 2015,14
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@techreport{Töpfer2015,
url = {https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/5979},
author = {Töpfer, Marina and Castagnetti, Carolina and Rosti, Luisa et al.},
title = {The reversal of the gender pay gap among public-contestselected young employees},
year = {2015},
school = {Universität Hohenheim},
series = {Hohenheim discussion papers in business, economics and social sciences},
}