Paper #627
- Title:
- An investigation of the relationship between job characteristics and the gender wage gap
- Authors:
- Jaume Garcia Villar, Pedro J. Hernández and Ángel López-Nicolás
- Date:
- May 2002
- Abstract:
- This paper re-examines gender wage differences, taking into account not only worker characteristics but also job characteristics. Consideration of a wide set of job quality indicators can explain a fraction of the wage gap that would otherwise be attributed to pure wage discrimination. In any case, the fraction of the wage gap that remains associated to differential rewards for identical factors across sexes is still substantial. Our results suggest that in order to avoid overestimation of the fraction of the wage gap attributable to discrimination, it is necessary to control for job characteristics.
- Keywords:
- Wage diferentials
- JEL codes:
- J7, C4
- Area of Research:
- Labour, Public, Development and Health Economics
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