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Wage gap between men and women in Tunisia

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  • Hela Jeddi
  • Dhafer Malouche

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This paper focuses on estimating wage differences between males and females in Tunisia by using the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, a technical that isolates wage gap due to characteristics, from wage gap due to discrimination against women. The data used in the analysis is obtained from the Tunisian Population and Employment Survey 2005. It is estimated that, the gender wage gap is about 19% and the results ascertain that the gender wage gap is mostly attributed to discrimination, especially to underestimation of females'caracteristics on the labor market.

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  • Hela Jeddi & Dhafer Malouche, 2015. "Wage gap between men and women in Tunisia," Papers 1511.02229, arXiv.org.
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