An investigation of the relationship between job characteristics and the gender wage gap
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Grupo de I+D en Economía, Políticas Públicas y SaludKnowledge Area
Economía AplicadaSponsors
We gratefully acknowledge financial support from DGES project PB98-1058-C03-03 and from the Instituto de la Mujer, Project VS/2001/0497.Publication date
2002-05Publisher
Universidad Pompeu Fabra. Departamento de Economía y EmpresaBibliographic Citation
GARCÍA, Jaume, HERNÁNDEZ, Pedro Jesús, LÓPEZ. Ángel. An investigation of the relationship between job characteristics and the gender wage gap. Working Papers, 627: 28, Mayo 2002Keywords
Diferencias salarialesTrabajadores
Discriminación salarial
Brecha salarial de género
Wage differentials
Job quality
Wage discrimination
Gender wage gap
Workers
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Abstract
This paper re-examines gender wage differences, taking into account not only worker
characteristics but also job characteristics. Consideration of a wide set of “job quality”
indicators can explain a fraction of the wage gap that would otherwise be attributed to pure
wage discrimination. In any case, the fraction of the wage gap that remains associated to
differential rewards for identical factors across sexes is still substantial. Our results suggest
that in order to avoid overestimation of the fraction of the wage gap attributable to
discrimination, it is necessary to control for job characteristics.
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