Abstract
This paper presents new evidence on the role of gender segregation and pay structure in explaining gender wage differentials of full-time salaried workers in Spain as of 1995 and 2002. Using data from the Spanish Wage Structure Surveys, we find that the raw gender wage gap
decreased from 0.24 to 0.14 over the course of seven years. Average differences in the base wage have decreased from 0.09 to 0.05 and average differences in wage complements have decreased from 0.59 to 0.40.
However, even after accounting for workers’ human capital, job characteristics, idiosyncrasies in the pay structure and female segregation into low-paying industries, occupations, establishments, and occupations within establishments, the total gender wage gap within job cells is around 14 percent, the gap in the base wage is 5 percent and the gap in the wage complements are between 27 and 31 percent. The fixed-term nature of the work contract held by the worker does not play any role in explaining the gender wage gap. Decentralized collective bargaining widens the wage gap in 12 percent as of 2002. Female segregation –particularly into low-paying establishments and into low-paying jobs within establishments– accounted for a sizable and growing fraction of the female-male wage differential.
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