Gender wage discrimination at quantiles

Javier Gardeazabal and Arantza Ugidos

Journal of Population Economics, 2005, vol. 18, issue 1, 165-179

Abstract: The literature provides several scalar measures of gender wage discrimination that cannot identify whether discrimination is greater among high earners or among low earners. Furthermore, two populations may exhibit the same value of the scalar measure while discrimination could be very differently distributed. We extend Oaxaca’s scalar measure to any quantile of the distribution of wages. Our measure allows comparisons within a population and inter-population. Using the Spanish Survey of Wage Structure we find that gender wage discrimination increases with the quantile index but as a fraction of the gender wage gap reaches a maximum at the ninth percentile. Copyright Springer-Verlag 2005

Keywords: J16; J31; J7; Gender discrimination; wage gap; quantile regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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