Educational attainments, educational mismatch and gender wage differentialsan application to the Spanish case
- Salinas Jiménez, María del Mar
- Rahona López, Marta
- Murillo Huertas, Inés P.
Editorial: Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
ISBN: 978-84-695-1574-7
Año de publicación: 2012
Páginas: 21
Congreso: Encuentro de Economía Pública (19. 2012. Santiago de Compostela)
Tipo: Aportación congreso
Resumen
This paper aims to analyze gender wage differentials in Spain by taking account of levels of educational attainment and studying whether educational mismatch affects the gender wage gap. Focusing on returns to education, evidence is found on the existence of educational mismatch and on its contribution to determine wages, with women suffering greater wages penalties associated to educational mismatch. Furthermore, although the gender wage gap is lower for individuals with low educational levels, we find that the part of this gap due to differences in returns is greater in this group. On the contrary, the gender gap is greater among highlyeducated workers, but in this case most of the wage differentials are due to differences in productive characteristics. In any case, our results suggest that gender wage discrimination tends to be greater for those workers showing educational mismatch.