Published in:Government of the Italian Republic (Italy), Ministry of Economy and Finance, Department of the Treasury Working Paper ; No. 2
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In: Government of the Italian Republic (Italy), Ministry of Economy and Finance, Department of the Treasury Working Paper No. 2
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In this article we apply a two stage approach in order to investigate whether a stronger sex discrimination exists the higher the job position is. This analysis is carried out by separating the Italian labor market among supervisors and non supervisors. Once the selection terms are accounted for through a multinomial logit, amongst non supervisors both the wage gap and the discriminatory component rise, while amongst supervisors they considerably decrease and become not significant. Thus, the stronger negative process of selection amongst Italian female managers can lead to consider that segment of the labor market unfair