Gender stereotyping and wage discrimination among Italian graduates

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education level, brothers and/or sisters; (v) personal characteristics: including, date of birth, sex,
marital status, children, country of domicile, country of birth, residence.

Table 1. Average earnings and employment probability by gender and field of study

Table 1 reports average monthly earnings and employment probability 3 years after graduation by
gender and field of study. Monthly earnings in 2007 are in euros and net of taxes and social security
contributions. The average earnings are 1299 and 1081 euros per month for the male and the female
sub sample, respectively. The average employment probability 3 years after graduation is 0.72 and
0.63 for male and female candidates, respectively.

In the empirical analysis of Section 2, we estimate the earnings equation for male and female
samples.

2 - Earnings Equations

The following earnings equation was estimated for full-time employees:

ln(w ) = α + β₁ edperf + β'₂E + β'₃X+ β'₄ Z + ε

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