RT Conference Proceedings
T1 A sectorial analysis of the gender wage gap along the wage distribution in Spain
A1 Marfil-Cotilla, Marina
A1 Campos-Soria, Juan Antonio
A1 García-Pozo, Alejandro
K1 Salarios
K1 Igualdad de género
AB This paper contributes to the study of the gender wage gap in the Spanish service sector along the wage distribution. This analysis of the gender wage gap is carried out in three stages. The first is based on a specific analysis of wages at the sectoral level, disentangling the service sector in hospitality industry, travel agency services, transport industry, and other complementary services. The decomposition of the gender wage gap into its non-discriminatory and discriminatory components for each sector is carried out in the second stage. The third stage consists of the application of an Unconditional Quantile Regression (UQR) methodology to analyse the different determinants of the discriminatory and non-discriminatory components across the wage distribution. The main findings are as follows. There are marked differences in the determinants of the non-discriminatory and discriminatory components of the gender wage gap between sectors. Among the main determinants, the human capital of workers, especially education and educational mismatch, and vertical gender segregation stand out. Regarding the non-discriminatory component, there is an over-representation of men in the highest paid jobs, except in the case of the transport industry. Regarding the discriminatory component, the existence of a lower degree of wage discrimination in the hospitality industry compared to other services is shown. There is a wage penalty for the promotion of women, especially in the transport and travel agency industries. In the hospitality industry, although women are under-represented in the higher-paid jobs, those who do make it to the top are paid more than men.
YR 2022
FD 2022-11-17
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/25497
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/25497
LA eng
NO Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 19 ene 2026