Article: Job discrimination or false wage gap in the current century? An analysis of graduates of the Faculty of Agricultural Economics Journal: International Journal of Education Economics and Development (IJEED) 2025 Vol.16 No.1/2 pp.268 - 285 Abstract: Wage equality continues to be a problem to be solved in the world and a utopia in most Latin American countries, including Ecuador, which considers and establishes gender as a conditioning factor in labour market insertion. In this regard, the present study aims to analyse the salary differences among graduates of the Faculty of Agricultural Economics based on the observable characteristics of individuals. Using the Mincerian equation, together with the Heckman bias correction and the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, we intend to demonstrate the existence of wage disparities. The results indicate the existence of a salary difference between graduates of around 52% in favour of the male gender, of which only 44% of the disparity is explained by factors attributable to human capital endowment. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: Job discrimination or false wage gap in the current century? An analysis of graduates of the Faculty of Agricultural Economics

Authors: Rina Bucaram-Leverone; Victor Quinde-Rosales; Francisco Quinde-Rosales; Pamela Vera-Pianda

Addresses: Centro de Investigación de Economía Agrícola y Ambiental 'Ing. Jacobo Bucaram Ortiz, PhD', Facultad de Economía Agrícola, Universidad Agraria del Ecuador, Ecuador ' Centro de Investigación de Economía Agrícola y Ambiental 'Ing. Jacobo Bucaram Ortiz, PhD', Facultad de Economía Agrícola, Universidad Agraria del Ecuador, Ecuador ' Centro de Investigación de Economía Agrícola y Ambiental 'Ing. Jacobo Bucaram Ortiz, PhD', Facultad de Economía Agrícola, Universidad Agraria del Ecuador, Ecuador ' Centro de Investigación de Economía Agrícola y Ambiental 'Ing. Jacobo Bucaram Ortiz, PhD', Facultad de Economía Agrícola, Universidad Agraria del Ecuador, Ecuador

Abstract: Wage equality continues to be a problem to be solved in the world and a utopia in most Latin American countries, including Ecuador, which considers and establishes gender as a conditioning factor in labour market insertion. In this regard, the present study aims to analyse the salary differences among graduates of the Faculty of Agricultural Economics based on the observable characteristics of individuals. Using the Mincerian equation, together with the Heckman bias correction and the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, we intend to demonstrate the existence of wage disparities. The results indicate the existence of a salary difference between graduates of around 52% in favour of the male gender, of which only 44% of the disparity is explained by factors attributable to human capital endowment.

Keywords: discrimination; wage disparity; labour market.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEED.2025.143604

International Journal of Education Economics and Development, 2025 Vol.16 No.1/2, pp.268 - 285

Received: 26 Apr 2023
Accepted: 09 Oct 2023
Published online: 02 Jan 2025 *

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