期刊论文

Liu, W.

英文

Journal of Economic Studies

0144-3585

2016

43

5

801-814

10.1108/JES-06-2014-0093

The authors are very grateful to the editor and anonymous referees for their valuable comments that improved this paper. The authors would also like to thank the World Bank Group for allowing the authors to have access to the data used in this paper. This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 21730228. All the analysis, interpretations and conclusions drawn from the data in this paper are entirely and solely those of the authors.

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Purpose: This paper investigates discrimination against women within the Brazilian labour market using firm-level data from the World Bank Investment Climate Survey. The purpose of this paper is to determine whether the female employees in the Brazilian labour market are paid less than their productivity warrants due to the existence of discrimination. Design/methodology/approach: Based on employer discrimination model proposed by Becker (1971) that considered the proportion of female employees as a proxy for the extent of discrimination, the a...