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dc.contributor.authorDe la Rica Goiricelaya, Sara ORCID
dc.date.accessioned2012-02-08T12:40:19Z
dc.date.available2012-02-08T12:40:19Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10810/6796
dc.description.abstractThis paper presents new evidence on the role of segregation into firms, occupations within a firm and stratification into professional categories within firm-occupations in explaining the gender wage gap. I use a generalized earnings model that allows observed and unobserved group characteristics to have different impact on wages of men and women within the same group. The database is a large sample of individual wage data from the 1995 Spanish Wage Structure Survey. Results indicate that firm segregation in our sample accounts for around one-fifth of the raw gender wage gap. Occupational segregation within firms accounts for about one-third of the raw wage gap, and stratification into different professional categories within firms and occupations explains another one-third of it. The remaining one-fifth of the overall gap arises from better outcomes of men relative to women within professional categories. It is also found that rewards to both observable and unobservable skills, particularly those related to education, are higher for males than for females within the same group. Finally, mean wages in occupations or job categories with a higher fraction of female co-workers are lower, but the negative impact of femaleness in higher for women.es
dc.description.sponsorshipFinancial support from de Basque Government (GV PI1999-160), DGICYT (0035.321-1394-12250/2000), Instituto de la Mujer (33/100) and from the University of the Basque Country (0035.321-13511/2011) is gratefully acknowledgeg.es
dc.language.isoenges
dc.publisherUniversity of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis IIes
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDFAEII 2002.10
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesses
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/*
dc.subjectgender wage gapes
dc.subjectfixed effectses
dc.subjectcorrrelated random effectses
dc.titleDecomposing the Gender Wage Gap: The effect of firms, occupations and Job Stratificationes
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaperes
dc.rights.holderAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported*
dc.subject.jelJ3
dc.subject.jelJ14
dc.identifier.repecRePEc:ehu:dfaeii:200210es
dc.departamentoesFundamentos del análisis económico IIes_ES
dc.departamentoeuEkonomia analisiaren oinarriak IIes_ES
dc.subject.categoriaLABOR AND DEMOGRAPHIC ECONOMICS


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