Paper #287

Títol:

How wide is the gap? An investigation of gender wage differences using quantile regression

Autors:

Jaume Garcia, Pedro J. Hernández i Ángel López Nicolás

Data:

Maig 1998

Resum:

In this paper we examine the determinants of wages and decompose the observed differences across genders into the "explained by different characteristics" and "explained by different returns components" using a sample of Spanish workers. Apart from the conditional expectation of wages, we estimate the conditional quantile functions for men and women and find that both the absolute wage gap and the part attributed to different returns at each of the quantiles, far from being well represented by their counterparts at the mean, are greater as we move up in the wage range.

Paraules clau:

Gender wage gap, quantile regression, education

Codis JEL:

C14, J16, J31

Àrea de Recerca:

Economia Laboral, Pública, de Desenvolupament i de la Salut

Publicat a:

Empirical Economics, 26, pp. 149-168, (2001)

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