Evolución de la brecha salarial de género en México

Raymundo Campos-Vazquez and Eva Arceo-Gomez

Serie documentos de trabajo del Centro de Estudios Económicos from El Colegio de México, Centro de Estudios Económicos

Abstract: We analize the gender wage gap in Mexico using the Population Censuses from 1990 to 2010. The wage gap has decreased on average during this period. In 2010, the gender wage gap was about 6%. However, the average hides important aspects of the wage gap across the distribution of wages. We find a stable pattern of sticky floors and a decreasing pattern of glass ceilings over the period. We use a semiparametric method to decompose the wage gap on changes in characteristics and changes in prices, and we also correct for selection of women into the labor market. Most of the wage gap is due to differences in prices. When correct for selection, we find that the wage gap would have been greater suggesting that there is positive selection of females into the labor market. This selection is more important for females with low education and in lower quantiles.

Keywords: wage gap; selection; non-parametric econometrics; Mexico (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 J16 J31 J71 O54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-08
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Journal Article: Evolución de la brecha salarial de género en México (2014)
Working Paper: Evolución de la Brecha Salarial de Género en México (2013)
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