Gender Differences in the Spanish Labor Market: a Review Before and After the Economic Crisis
- Autores: Luz María Peña Longobardo, Antonio Fernández-Bolaños Valentín, Santiago Pérez Camarero, Álvaro Hidalgo Vega
- Localización: Documentos de Trabajo DAEF (Departamento de Análisis Económico y Finanzas). UCLM, ISSN-e 1989-4856, Nº. 3, 2016, 24 págs.
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
The main aim of this study was to analyze whether the discrimination rate between males and females has increased or decreased over the last decade in Spain, and to determine whether it has been influenced by the economic growth prior to 2007, as well as by the economic crisis after. Data from the Salary Structure Survey was used to obtain information related to the labor market in Spain from 1995 to 2010. Moreover, alternative methods for estimating the extent of labor market discrimination were used. All of the methods involved the decomposition of the differences in gross wage into both discrimination and productivity components. Additionally, a logistic regression was performed to analyze the main factors that explained the probability of being discriminated in Spain. Although the discrimination rate decreased over the analyzed period (especially during the first years of the economic expansion (1995-2002)), there was still a discrimination rate of 0.05 between males and females.
Therefore, policies need to be adopted to combat this discrimination and take advantage of the adaptation.
