Homens e mulheres têm, de fato, oportunidades iguais?: uma análise da discriminação de gênero no mercado de trabalho no estado de Mato Grosso do Sul

Abstract

This project has as main objective analyze the job market in Mato Grosso do Sul, with focus on gender discrimination. Income inequalities in the Brazilian job market are very expressive and theme of several studies. These inequalities have some determining characteristics as schooling, experience, race and gender. The work seeks to demonstrate and indicate how these characteristics affect the income gap between women and men in the State. In this regard, it was used an equation of Mincerian Salaries, analyzing State’s data from 2002 and 2012 by PNADs.The results showed how these characteristics influence the income between women and men. They also highlighted the discrimination against the female gender, given that women, controlling for variables that affect the wages, receive, on average, 39% less than men do.