The role of gender and migration status in the wage gap in Spain
This Master’s thesis investigates the wage gap across demographic groups, classified by gender and migration status, alongside socioeconomic and labor market factors. The data from EU-SILC 2023, represents 42.14% of the Spanish labor force. We use the segregation index to examine the wage segregatio...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis de maestría |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad del País Vasco |
| Repositorio: | Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/73811 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/73811 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | wage gap discrimination segregation inequality immigrants |
| Sumario: | This Master’s thesis investigates the wage gap across demographic groups, classified by gender and migration status, alongside socioeconomic and labor market factors. The data from EU-SILC 2023, represents 42.14% of the Spanish labor force. We use the segregation index to examine the wage segregation level in region and employment sector across demographic groups, and econometric techniques for analysis of the wage gap. Then, we use the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition to dissect the wage gap into portions attributable to observable characteristics as explained and unexplained for non-attributable characteristics. Results reveal the presence of wage segregation across regions and the employment sector. The non-EU immigrants are concentrated in lower-wage sectors and native workers in higherpaying industries. The results econometric approach suggest that non-EU males and females earn 11.5% and 11.3% less, than their respective EU counterparts. Immigrants, primarily those from outside the European Union also face similar challenges. Only a small portion of the decomposed differences were explained with the decomposition, and the remaining unexplained portion could stem from potential discrimination. This underscores the need for targeted wage policies that reduce the wage gap by supporting integration. |
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