Psychological Bias and Gender Wage Gap

Frédéric Palomino () and Eloïc-Anil Peyrache ()
Additional contact information
Frédéric Palomino: Department of Economics - EDHEC - EDHEC Business School - UCL - Université catholique de Lille
Eloïc-Anil Peyrache: Department of Finance and Economics - HEC School of Management - Université de Liège

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: Basing our work on the literature on psychology that highlights differences in confidencelevels between men and women, we provide a rationale for the simultaneous existence of the two dimensions of the gender wage gap: (i) on average, men earn more than women and (ii) the difference in wages depends on the gender structure. We also argue that although an equal compensation policy does not eliminate the gender wage gap, it nonetheless increases social welfare. Finally, endogenizing the choice of task by agents, we show how women, in a vast majority, can self-select on low paying jobs.

Keywords: bias; gender; optimal contract; wage gap (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-11-30
Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://hal.science/hal-00911836
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (9)

Published in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2010, 76 (3), pp.563. ⟨10.1016/j.jebo.2010.07.004⟩

Downloads: (external link)
https://hal.science/hal-00911836/document (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-00911836

DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2010.07.004

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().