TY - JOUR 
A1 - García Villar, Jaume
AU - Hernández Martínez, Pedro Jesús
AU - López Nicolás, Ángel
T1 - How wide Is the gap? an investigation of gender wage differences using quantile regression
Y1 - 1998
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10317/1201
AB - In this paper we examine the determinants of wages and decompose the observed differences across genders into the "explained by different characteristics" and "explained by different returns components" using a sample of Spanish workers. Apart from the conditional expectation of wages, we estimate the conditional quantile functions for men and women and find that both the absolute wage gap and the part attributed to different returns at each of the quantiles, far from being well represented by their counterparts at the mean, are greater as we move up in the wage range.
KW - Economía Aplicada
KW - Brecha salarial de género
KW - Regresión cuantil
KW - Educación
KW - Gender wage gap
KW - Quantile regression
KW - Education
LA - eng
PB - Universidad Pompeu Fabra. Departamento de Economía y Empresa
ER -