Male-Female Wage-Gap Decomposition in Agriculture-Based Employment in the Philippines

Type Journal Article - Journal of Economics, Management and Agricultural Development
Title Male-Female Wage-Gap Decomposition in Agriculture-Based Employment in the Philippines
Author(s)
Volume 1
Issue 1
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2015
Page numbers 45-62
URL http://www.journals.uplb.edu.ph/index.php/JEMAD/article/viewFile/1303/1202
Abstract
The study uses the 2006 to 2009 Labor Force Surveys (LFS) to estimate the wage structure and wage differentials between employed men and women in agriculture-based employment in the Philippines. Estimates reveal that average male wage workers in the agriculture sector receive remunerations that are approximately 13% to 18% higher than what the average female wage workers receive. Using the threefold Blinder-Oaxaca wage decomposition method, about 12% of the estimated gender wage gap is due to the endowment effect or the human capital effect, 74% is due to the coefficients effect and 14% can be attributed to the interaction effect.

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