Resumen de Wage differentials and wage rigidity. Micro evidence from labor market models with frictions
This doctoral dissertation is comprised of three essays. The first two are about labor market discrimination and the last essay is about downward wage rigidity.
In the first chapter I proposed and estimated an equilibrium search model using matched employer-employee data to study the extent to which wage diferentials between men and women can be explained by diferences in productivity, disparities in friction patterns or wage discrimination.
In the second chapter I studied discrimination against immigrant in Germany. I build on the Hellerstein and Neumark (1999) popular method to detect wage discrimination using matched employer-employee data but it may produce biased estimates whenever there is not perfect competition in the labor market or when the discriminated group is segregated into good or bad firms.
In third chapter I studied the impact of downward wage rigidity over the labor market dynamics
