Sociability Capital and Gender Wage Gap

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to get deeper insight into the measurement of gender wage gap. A proper method to identify which part of gender wage differences is due to discrimination against women is provided, and the relationship between wage differences and education is studied. Design/methodology/approach The stochastic frontier approach is employed to measure wage discrimination against women by using Spanish data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions. Mentioned technique allows the authors to split the gender wage gap of workers displaying the same characteristics into two components: the first measures inefficiency in the job search process caused by imperfect information or gender differences concerning preferences regarding working conditions, where as the second takes account of discrimination. Findings A significant level of discrimination is found in the Spanish labour market at all educational levels, but this problem is quantitatively more important when low-educated workers are studied, and gender discrimination is lower for highly educated women. Originality/value In this paper, workers’ potential wage is estimated, and gender discrimination is measured by the gender potential wage gap, since it is not dependent on other wage determinants such as diverse preferences, unmeasured working abilities or imperfect information.

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It pays to be happy (if you are a man)

International Journal of Manpower ◽

10.1108/ijm-07-2013-0184 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 35 (3) ◽

pp. 392-414 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Vinod Mishra ◽

Russell Smyth

Keyword(s):

Subjective Wellbeing ◽

Gender Wage Gap ◽

Wage Gap ◽

Ordinary Least Squares ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Content Type ◽

And Gender ◽

The Relationship ◽

Identification Strategy

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to use cross-sectional data collected from six cities in China to examine the relationship between subjective wellbeing and male and female earnings and also to consider the contribution of differences in subjective wellbeing to explaining the gender wage gap. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses survey data for 3,390 respondents working in a variety of blue collar and white collar jobs across a range of sectors including government, heavy and light manufacturing, mining and services in six Chinese cities: Chengdu, Dalian, Fushun, Fuxin, Fuzhou and Wuhan. The authors employ the ordinary least squares, Lewbel instrumental variable and Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition to econometrically analyze the relationship between subjective wellbeing and gender wage gap. Findings – The paper finds that the relationship between subjective wellbeing and wages is stronger for males than females. The authors note that 0.2 percent of the observed gender wage gap can be attributed to differences in mean subjective wellbeing in favor of females, while 53.5 percent can be ascribed to gender differences in returns to subjective wellbeing in favor of males. The paper also finds evidence that the relationship between subjective wellbeing and income is non-linear and that income peaks at higher levels of subjective wellbeing for men than women. Originality/value – The paper extends the existing literature in three important ways. First, the authors use a novel identification strategy, proposed by Lewbel (2012); second it uses a better measure for subjective wellbeing and third, it examine the role of differences in subjective wellbeing in explaining the gender wage gap.

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Changes in Returns to Task-Specific Skills and Gender Wage Gap

The Journal of Human Resources ◽

10.3368/jhr.53.1.1214-6813r2 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 53 (1) ◽

pp. 32-70 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Shintaro Yamaguchi

Keyword(s):

Gender Wage Gap ◽

Wage Gap ◽

And Gender

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