Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/286581 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Citation: 
[Journal:] SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association [ISSN:] 1869-4195 [Volume:] 14 [Issue:] 3/4 [Year:] 2023 [Pages:] 353-377
Publisher: 
Springer, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
This paper updates the available evidence on the public-private wage gap in Spain, which dates back to 2012. Through microdata drawn from the last three waves of the Wage Structure Survey (2010, 2014 and 2018), we study how this gap and its distribution by gender and education have evolved during and after the Great Recession. Conventional Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions are used to divide the raw wage gap into a component explained by differences in characteristics and another one capturing differences in returns and endogenous selection. The main findings are: (i) a strong wage compression by skills, and (ii) a wage premium for less-skilled women in the public sector. Both empirical results can be rationalised by a monopoly union wage-setting model with monopsonistic features and the presence of female statistical discrimination.
Subjects: 
Public sector
Private sector
Public-private wage gap
Monopsony ·Unions
JEL: 
J31
J38
J42
J45
C23
C33
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Document Type: 
Article

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