The gender differences in highly paid wage: A case study of peruvian physicians

• Autores: Amaya Chunga, Elard, Mougenot, Benoit
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2019
• Institución: Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola
• Repositorio: USIL-Institucional
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.usil.edu.pe:20.500.14005/9093
• Enlace del recurso: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14005/9093; http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-311X2019000605011&tlng=en; http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0102-311X00043018
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Decomposition; Job market; Sex difference; Physician

In recent decades, the number of women pursuing careers in health has significantly increased. However, the physician labor market is still characterized by gender differences regarding payment. Using a nationally representative Peruvian sample of health providers (3,219 male and 1,063 female physi-cians), we estimated the gender gap in the likelihood of earning high wages for physicians and decomposed this gap in a proportion related to differences in individual characteristics (e.g. specialty, labor experience), and a residual proportion related to differences in returns to these characteristics. Our main results reveal that male physicians have on average an 81% higher likelihood of earning high salaries (monthly earning level > 5,000 PEN) relative to their female counterparts. Further, the main proportion of this gap is associated to the unexplained component (among 57% and 77%, according to the model specification), which may be associated to unobservable characteristics and discrimination in the Peruvian labor market.