The Gender Wage Gap in Offered, Observed, and Reservation Wages for Spain

María Arrazola and Jose de Hevia

Feminist Economics, 2016, vol. 22, issue 4, 101-128

Abstract: The literature on the gender wage gap and wage discrimination has exclusively analyzed observed wage differences, ignoring inactive or unemployed individuals. In order to obtain a more complete overview of gender wage differences, this paper analyzed inactive or unemployed individuals in terms of offered and reservation wages in Spain in the years 1994, 2000, and 2006. The results show that the observed wages give a more positive perspective of the gender wage gap than offered ones. Furthermore, the existence of an important gender wage gap for reservation wages has been noted, which is possibly because women take charge of household and family caregiving tasks to a greater degree than men. The results show that Spanish women had higher reservation wages and lower offered wages than men, which explains their lower participation in the labor market.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2015.1135248

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