Gender contribution to income inequality

Frédéric Chantreuil (1, 2) , Isabelle Lebon (2, 1)

1 CREM - Centre de recherche en économie et management
2 TEPP - Travail, Emploi et Politiques Publiques

This note suggests a new way of determining the contribution of gender to wage inequality as part of the framework based on the Shapley approach. The proposed methodology is illustrated using French data over the period 1970–2003.

Keywords: Shapley value; inequality decomposition; gender

Domains: Economics and Finance

Frédéric Chantreuil, Isabelle Lebon. Gender contribution to income inequality. Economics Letters, 2015, 133, pp.27-30. ⟨10.1016/j.econlet.2015.05.009⟩. ⟨halshs-01184086⟩