Los hombres al trabajo y las mujeres a la casa: ¿es la segregación ocupacional otra explicacion razonable de las diferencias salariales por sexo en c

Luisa Bernat Díaz () and Jaime Velez Robayo ()

No 5245, Borradores de Economía y Finanzas from Universidad Icesi

Abstract: This article explores the relationship between occupational segregation and the wage differencesbetween men and women using the Fluckiger & Silber (1999) decomposition. This methodology is anadaptation of the traditional Oaxaca (1973)-Blinder (1973) decomposition that allows separating thesex wage gap into three additive components: 1. the part of the gap explained by differences inproductivity between sexes. 2. The fraction associated with differences in returns to productivecharacteristics and 3. A part related to differences in group size -segregation-. Despite the statisticaldifference in productive characteristics and returns across occupational groups, we find that thesegregation component of the decomposition is extremely sensitive to the way groups are defined.Since occupational groups are defined ad hoc, further insight is needed in order to determine howimportant segregation really is to explain wage differences

Keywords: Cali; Discriminación; segregación; diferencias salariales por sexo. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J31 J7 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38
Date: 2009-01-24
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