Historical gender discrimination does not explain comparative Western European development: evidence from Portugal, 1300-1900

Palma, Nuno; Reis, Jaime; Rodrigues, Lisbeth

doi:10.1016/j.eeh.2022.101481

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“…We find that the gender wage ratio in Japan was high and stable at around 0.7. Unlike most past studies (with the exception of (Palma et al, 2021)) , our detailed data allows us to show that measuring gender wage ratios within employers does not change this result. We next examine the available evidence on why a gender wage gap existed.…”

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confidence: 63%

“…In comparison, the estimates from Southwest Europe are much lower at around 0.5 although recent work on Portugal suggests it may have had similarly high gender wage ratios (Palma et al, 2021). The Japanese gender wage ratio is comparable to English laborers on annual contracts but higher than those on day contracts.…”

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confidence: 86%

“…West (Cox and Nye, 1989;Van Nederveen Meerkerk, 2010;Burnette, 2015;Drelichman and Agudo, 2020;Burnette and Stanfors, 2020) there are examples of societies where gender discrimination existed. For instance, there is the case of pre-industrial Southwest Europe (De Pleijt and van Zanden, 2021), although debated by (Palma et al, 2021), and 19th century Sweden, in addition to the clear emergence of gender discrimination after industrialization due to the rise of internal labor markets (Burnette, 2015). 13 Therefore, it is too early to assume the gender wage ratios in Japan were not driven by gender discrimination.…”

Section: Discrimination Task Division and Productivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One concern with the European series is that wage ratios may not have been so difference between the north and south (Drelichman and Agudo, 2020;Palma et al, 2021) so that the European gender wage ratios are driven by measurement errors. If true, this could mean differences in gender wage ratios cannot explain the slight variation in marriage patterns within Europe.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The gender wage ratio in De Pleijt and van Zanden (2021) does not use data from within employers. Although we do not use their data, the study byPalma et al (2021) does use gender wage ratios within employers.…”

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