This paper identifies the impact of taste-based discrimination on labor market outcomes for nine Latin American countries. We use homogenized survey data on skilled workers to estimate a search and matching model of the labor market with explicit prejudice against women, participation decisions, and occupational choices. By gradually eliminating all potential sources of gender gaps, we find that prejudice is the only source that consistently impacts women, and plays a significant role in explaining gender wage gaps at the bottom of the wage distribution. Additionally, prejudice has strong negative effects on gender gaps with respect to participation, employment/unemployment, and self-employment rates.

本文确定了基于品味的歧视对九个拉丁美洲国家的劳动力市场结果的影响。我们使用关于技术工人的同质化调查数据来估计劳动力市场的搜索和匹配模型，其中包含对女性、参与决策和职业选择的明显偏见。通过逐步消除性别差距的所有潜在来源，我们发现偏见是唯一持续影响女性的来源，并且在解释工资分布底部的性别工资差距方面发挥着重要作用。此外，偏见对参与、就业/失业和自雇率方面的性别差距有很大的负面影响。