The Role of Segregation and Pay Structure on the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data for Spain

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes ◽  
Sara De la Rica
Keyword(s):  
Gender Wage Gap ◽  
Wage Gap ◽  
Wage Structure ◽  
Gender Segregation ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Salaried Workers ◽  
Gender Wage Differentials ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Employee Data

AbstractThis paper presents new evidence on the role of gender segregation and pay structure in explaining gender wage differentials of full-time salaried workers in Spain. Data from the 1995 and 2002 Wage Structure Surveys reveal that raw gender wage gaps decreased from 0.24 to 0.14 over the seven-year period. Average differences in the base wage and wage complements decreased from 0.09 to 0.05 and from 0.59 to 0.40, respectively. However, the gender wage gap is still large after accounting for workers’ human capital, job and pay structure characteristics, and female segregation into low-paying industries, occupations, establishments, and occupations within establishments.

The Gender Wage Gap in Hospitality: New Evidence From Spain

2020 ◽  
pp. 193896552097127
Author(s):  
José M. Casado-Díaz ◽  
Oana Driha ◽  
Hipólito Simón
Keyword(s):  
Hospitality Industry ◽  
Gender Wage Gap ◽  
Wage Gap ◽  
Wage Distribution ◽  
Hospitality Workers ◽  
Direct Discrimination ◽  
Female Employees ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Employee Data ◽  
Accurate Quantification

This article examines the gender wage gap in the Spanish hospitality industry versus the rest of the economy. Decomposition techniques are applied to a nationwide representative sample that includes matched employer–employee data allowing an accurate quantification of the phenomenon and its determinants. The methodologies used allow us to examine the average gender wage gap and also how this gap behaves throughout the wage distribution. According to the results, the gender wage gap in hospitality is rather significant (although slightly lower compared with the rest of the economy) and exhibits a steeper profile along the wage distribution. A large part of the gap is explained by observable characteristics, as female hospitality workers have lower levels of seniority than men, are overrepresented in low-skilled occupations, have less supervisory responsibilities, and are segregated into low-wage firms. Although potentially direct discrimination seems to be lower in hospitality, it is not a negligible problem, as, in its most conservative measure (namely, when observationally identical male and female employees working in the same firm are compared), it accounts for as much as 0.05 log points or 30% of the raw gender wage gap. The evidence also shows that the particularly intense gender wage gap observed in the uppermost part of the wage distribution in the hospitality industry arises because more qualified women in the sector are doubly penalized by an intense segregation into comparatively worse jobs and by an unfavorable wage treatment with respect to comparable men, which is consistent with the glass-ceiling phenomenon.

scholarly journals Gender wage gap across the distribution: What is the role of within- and between-firm effects?

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ezgi Kaya
Keyword(s):  
Glass Ceiling ◽  
Gender Wage Gap ◽  
Wage Gap ◽  
Ceiling Effect ◽  
Wage Distribution ◽  
Distributional Analysis ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Employee Data

Abstract This paper studies the role of within- and between-firm effects on the gender wage gap (GWG). Using linked employer–employee data for Turkey for 2006 and 2014, we show that the wage gap among comparable men and women is much wider within establishments than between establishments. Our distributional analysis shows a more pronounced gap among highly paid workers, consistent with the presence of a glass-ceiling effect. This effect, however, is more apparent within establishments than between establishments, and it is the former that drives the economy-wide glass ceiling that women face. We also find that between 2006 and 2014, the GWG in Turkey widened at all points in the wage distribution, and that this widening was more pronounced within establishments than between establishments.

The role of risk and negotiation in explaining the gender wage gap

2021 ◽  
Vol 191 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Pushkar Maitra ◽  
Ananta Neelim ◽  
Chau Tran
Keyword(s):  
Gender Wage Gap ◽  
Wage Gap

Glass Ceilings in Portugal?

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raquel Mendes
Keyword(s):  
Wage Inequality ◽  
Glass Ceiling ◽  
Gender Wage Gap ◽  
Wage Gap ◽  
Gender Segregation ◽  
Ceiling Effect ◽  
Wage Distribution ◽  
Women's Wages ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Women's Role

Despite the evidence of female progress with regard to women’s role in the labor market, gender inequality remains. Women are still less likely to be employed than men, occupational gender segregation continues, and females continue to earn less than males. The gender wage gap remains wide in several occupational sectors, among which is the information technology (IT) sector. This paper focuses the determinants of gender wage inequality. More precisely, it investigates for statistical evidence of a glass ceiling effect on women’s wages. Based on the quantile regression framework, the empirical analysis extends the decomposition of the average gender wage gap to other parts of the earnings distribution. The main objective is to empirically test whether gender-based wage discrimination is greater among high paid employees, in line with glass ceiling hypothesis. Larger unexplained gaps at the top of the wage distribution indicate the existence of a glass ceiling effect in Portugal.

scholarly journals Gender Wage Gap and the Involvement of Partners in Household Work

2020 ◽  
pp. 095001702093793
Author(s):  
Eleonora Matteazzi ◽  
Stefani Scherer
Keyword(s):  
Gender Wage Gap ◽  
Wage Gap ◽  
Domestic Work ◽  
Unpaid Work ◽  
Market Work ◽  
Household Work ◽  
Domestic Activities ◽  
The Us ◽  
Gender Discrepancies

Women still earn less than men and continue to perform the bulk of domestic activities. Several studies documented a negative individual wage–housework relation, suggesting that gender discrepancies in housework may explain the gender wage gap. Less attention has been paid to the role of the partner’s unpaid work and to the extent that intra-household inequalities relate to inequalities outside the house. The present study attempts to fill this gap in the literature. We exploit EU-SILC 2010 data for Germany and Italy and PSID 2009 data for the US. Results suggest the importance of accounting for a partner’s housework when evaluating the determinants of individual wages and the gender wage gap. Women seem not to profit from their partners’ housework; instead, women’s non-market work increases their partners’ earnings while decreasing their own earnings. This suggests the importance of reducing women’s involvement in domestic work in order to close gender wage equalities.

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