Gender-wage gap distribution with endogenous human capital: the Spanish case

Mario Rueda Narvaez () and Maria Lucia Navarro Gomez ()
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Mario Rueda Narvaez: Universidad de Malaga
Maria Lucia Navarro Gomez: Universidad de Malaga

Chapter 53 in Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación, 2011, vol. 6, pp 869-881 from Asociación de Economía de la Educación

Abstract: This paper aims to verify the existence of gender-based wage discrimination in Spain and, if so, to quantify it. Using data from the Spanish section of the European Community Household Panel, we first estimate earnings equations for men and women using the instrumental variable method proposed by Hausman and Taylor (1981). This aims to avoid biases resulting from endogeneity of regressors with respect to the random perturbation in the model. Building on these results, we then follow the proposal of Jenkins (1994) and estimate a bivariate wage distribution for women, containing individual expected earnings when discrimination exists (applying the female wage structure) and when it doesn’t (applying the male wage structure). This allows for a full distributional analysis of gender-wage gaps. Our results show that discrimination is distributed unevenly across female workers and that the degree to which women are discriminated against grows as they move upward in the wage distribution.

Keywords: Human Capital; Wage Differentials; Insrumental Variables (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J31 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
ISBN: 978-84-695-0585-4
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