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An analysis of the gender wage gap in Peru in the formal and informal sectors
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Unlike previous studies on gender gaps, this research analyzes wage gaps within the Peruvian labor market considering its segmentation between informal and formal and a sub-segmentation between public and private, generating 4 segments in the labor market. For this purpose, we apply decomposition methods for mean wage and along the wage distribution. The main findings are the following: first, in the informal segment there are wide wage gaps in the upper and lower ends of the distribution against women with a greater emphasis on the informal public segment, and in the informal private segment we found a negative wage gap against women but constant along the distribution. Then, in the formal segment (public and private) the largest gaps were found at the upper end of the distribution, a result that is in line with the "glass ceiling" effect found by the international literature.
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Treballs Finals del Màster d'Economia, Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona, Curs: 2019-2020, Tutor: Raúl Ramos Lobo
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QUISPE CUBA, Richar. An analysis of the gender wage gap in Peru in the formal and informal sectors. [consulted: 14 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/172852