Artículo de revista
Gender wage inequality in inclusive and exclusive industrial relations systems: a comparison of Argentina and Chile
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2015-02-11Registro en:
Cambridge Journal of Economics 2015, 39, 497–535
DOI:10.1093/cje/beu084
Autor
Ugarte Gómez, Sebastián
Grimshaw, Damián
Institución
Resumen
Drawing on an empirical and comparative mixed methods analysis of Argentina and
Chile, this article investigates arguments about the role of ‘inclusive’ versus ‘exclusive’
industrial relations systems in promoting gender wage equity and enabling attractive
wage returns to women investing in higher education. Our findings confirm the importance
of Argentina’s inclusive industrial relations system in narrowing gender pay differences
to a greater extent than Chile. Nevertheless, Chile’s industrial relations institutions
are not wholly exclusive; its high-level statutory minimum wage has played a strongly
distributive role in the 2000s and compressed wages in the lower half of the wage distribution.
Also notable is the finding from quantile regression that highly educated women
in high-paid jobs enjoy a larger wage premium in the class-equal Argentina than in
Chile despite a far wider wage gap between low/high-educated workers in Chile overall.