Gender Gaps in Performance Pay: New Evidence from Spain

• Autores: Sara De la Rica Goiricelaya, Juan José Dolado, Raquel Vegas
• Localización: Documentos de trabajo ( FEDEA ), ISSN 1696-7496, Nº. 14, 2013, págs. 1-29
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This paper analyzes the gender gap in the performance�pay component of hourly wages received by workers in Spain using detailed information drawn from a large wage survey for 2006. Under the assumption that performance pay is determined in a more competitive fashion than the remaining wage components, there should be less room for gender discrimination. However, this is not what we find. After controlling for observable characteristics, non-random selection into performance-pay jobs and for segregation into different firms and occupations, the estimated adjusted gap in favour of male remains large (around 30 log points). Further, there is evidence of a �glass ceiling� pattern throughout the distribution of performance pay. After examining alternative hypotheses that could rationalize these findings, we conjecture that employers� discrimination, possibly due to monopsonistic power, might be the one which is more consistent with the evidence