Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/282848 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 16721
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Utilizing comprehensive administrative data from Brazil, we investigate the impact of peer effects on wages, considering both within-gender and cross-gender dynamics. Since the average productivity of both individuals and their peers is unobservable, we estimate these values using worker fixed effects while accounting for occupational and firm sorting. Our findings reveal that within-gender peer effects have approximately twice the influence of cross-gender peer effects on wages for both males and females. Furthermore, we observe a reduction in the disparity between these two types of peer effects in settings characterized by greater gender equality.
Subjects: 
peer effects
gender
matched employer-employee data
identity
wage determination
JEL: 
J16
J24
J31
M12
M54
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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