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This research analyzes the factors that affect to wage discrimination of women in the accounting profession. Wage discrimination takes place when men and women receive unequal pay for the same job. This paper, using econometrics modeling, show the existence of wage discrimination among accounting professionals and the variables that determine it. The results provide information about that gender wage discrimination exists, and that the factors that cause it in this group of professionals are years in college, compliance with salary, age, professional degree, job satisfaction, college satisfaction, the type of company in which they work (public, private or mixed), and the size of it and labor mobility.
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Quezada, E.R., Muñoz, C.G., de la Fuente-Mella, H. (2020). Econometric Modeling of Wage Discrimination Towards Women in the Accounting Profession. In: Kantola, J., Nazir, S. (eds) Advances in Human Factors, Business Management and Leadership. AHFE 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 961. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20154-8_22
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