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Gender segregation and earnings differences in the Spanish labour market

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  • Juan Antonio Campos-Soria
  • Miguel Angel Ropero-García

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This article analyses the effects of different types of gender segregation on the gender wage differential for the Spanish labour market. Matched employer–employee data from a sample of 226,535 workers are used. These workers are employed in 61 occupations within 26,492 establishments in 51 different industries. Workers belonging to the same industry, establishment or job share common factors which cannot be observed and these factors affect wages. If these unobservable variables are correlated with the explanatory variables, their estimated effects will be biased. For this reason, we estimate the effects of each type of gender segregation on the wage gap using a robust specification to these possible correlations. We obtain that industrial segregation by gender explains a lower part of the wage gap between men and women than previous researches found using standard regressions, while the contributions of establishment segregation and occupational segregation within each establishment are greater.

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  • Juan Antonio Campos-Soria & Miguel Angel Ropero-García, 2016. "Gender segregation and earnings differences in the Spanish labour market," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 48(43), pages 4143-4155, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:applec:v:48:y:2016:i:43:p:4143-4155
    DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2016.1153789
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    1. Riccardo Leoncini & Mariele Macaluso & Annalivia Polselli, 2023. "Gender Segregation: Analysis across Sectoral-Dominance in the UK Labour Market," Papers 2303.04539, arXiv.org, revised Dec 2023.

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