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

Jaume Garcia Villar, Pedro Hernandez and Ángel López Nicolás ()

Economics Working Papers from Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Gender wage gap; quantile regression; education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 J16 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998-05
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