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The artist wage penalty in the formal sector
| dc.contributor.author | Bernard, Anna | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gazel, Marco | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-28T15:30:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-28T15:30:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2026-04-17 | |
| dc.description.abstract | We provide the first within-worker evidence on the artist wage penalty in the formal sector. Using administrative matched employer-employee data covering the nearuniverse of formal private-sector workers in Portugal from 2010 to 2023, we find that workers transitioning into artistic occupations earn 1.5% less in total compensation. The aggregate penalty masks two offsetting margins: artists accept a 4.1% hourly wage discount but supply 2.6% more hours, consistent with Throsby’s (1994) workpreference model. The penalty is gender-neutral but varies across occupations, with photographers, film-related artists, and painters facing the largest hourly discounts and musicians compensating through longer hours. We then evaluate the Estatuto dos Profissionais da Área da Cultura, a 2022 Portuguese reform targeting bogus selfemployment in the cultural sector. The reform increased the share of formally employed artists in covered sectors, but the hourly wage penalty widened post-reform. Formalisation reduces precarity but does not close the artist wage gap, and its cost is partly borne by workers through wage compression. | eng |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.2139/ssrn.6597965 | |
| dc.identifier.other | aec1a40d-0f8d-4098-8b47-df7f24304f21 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/58863 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | SSRN | |
| dc.rights.uri | N/A | |
| dc.subject | Artist wage penalty | eng |
| dc.subject | Compensating differentials | eng |
| dc.subject | Work-preference model | eng |
| dc.subject | Cultural sector | eng |
| dc.title | The artist wage penalty in the formal sector | |
| dc.type | preprint | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.version | http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85 |
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