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Title: Gender Wage Gap and Education: Case in Dominican Republic

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: The gender wage gap is common in Latin America and the Caribbean countries where women have been getting more years of education than men. This research analyzes the case of the Dominican Republic and presents evidences of the gender wage gap using econometric models with data from the Central Bank of Dominican Republic. Results show that there exists a gender wage gap in the Dominican Republic with discrimination against women and key determinants of wage are age, education, type of occupation, marital status and number of children. The ordered logit model shows that the log-odds of belonging to a high wage group is lower by 1.12 for women in this country. Higher (college) education narrows the degree of the gender wage gap, the hourly wage for college educated women is 8% less than the hourly wage for college educated men, compared with 24-32% less in other levels of education groups. Thus public policies should focus on facilitating access to higher (college) education for women.

Url: http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1493&context=gradreports

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Authors: Grullon, Adagel

Institution: Utah State University

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Publisher Location: Logan, Utah

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Topics: Education, Gender, Other

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