Gender wage differences in the Philippines labour market.

• Main Authors: Choong, Elizabeth Jia Yun., Chua, Kit Theng., Koh, Shou Wen.
• Other Authors: Christos Sakellariou
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Economic development::Philippines
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/35497
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study aims to determine the factors contributing to the gender wage gap in the Philippines, using 2006 Labour Force Survey (LFS) data, by decomposing the gender gap along the entire conditional distribution of wages. We use the newly available STATA module rqdeco, which generalizes the Oaxaca-B...