Labour Market Intermittency and Its Effect on Gender Wage Gap in Spain

The current economic crisis is having a profound impact from a gender perspective on the traditional Spanish labour market model, as women are currently assuming a more active role in comparison to their male counterparts. Nevertheless important gender differences still remain, especially in wages....

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Main Authors: Inmaculada Cebrián, Gloria Moreno
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association d'Economie Politique
Series:Revue Interventions Économiques
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/interventionseconomiques/1950
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description The current economic crisis is having a profound impact from a gender perspective on the traditional Spanish labour market model, as women are currently assuming a more active role in comparison to their male counterparts. Nevertheless important gender differences still remain, especially in wages. The objective of this paper is to analyze how gender differences in labour market interruptions explain gender wage gap in Spain. We use the information from the Muestra Continua de Vidas Laborales (CSWL), from years 2005 to 2010. With this source of data it is possible to define an index to control for the whole information from any type of employment interruption. This index is used to describe the relationship between trajectories and situation in labour market, and also to assess their influence on earnings. Our main findings show that interruptions of employment have a negative impact on wages and they explain part of the observed differences in gender wage gap.
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spelling doaj.art-ec3b976f89b94e20ba8042bda6280e952024-02-15T12:53:29ZengAssociation d'Economie PolitiqueRevue Interventions Économiques0715-35701710-73774710.4000/interventionseconomiques.1950Labour Market Intermittency and Its Effect on Gender Wage Gap in SpainInmaculada CebriánGloria MorenoThe current economic crisis is having a profound impact from a gender perspective on the traditional Spanish labour market model, as women are currently assuming a more active role in comparison to their male counterparts. Nevertheless important gender differences still remain, especially in wages. The objective of this paper is to analyze how gender differences in labour market interruptions explain gender wage gap in Spain. We use the information from the Muestra Continua de Vidas Laborales (CSWL), from years 2005 to 2010. With this source of data it is possible to define an index to control for the whole information from any type of employment interruption. This index is used to describe the relationship between trajectories and situation in labour market, and also to assess their influence on earnings. Our main findings show that interruptions of employment have a negative impact on wages and they explain part of the observed differences in gender wage gap.https://journals.openedition.org/interventionseconomiques/1950labour market trajectoriesinterruptionsindex of intermittencygender wage differentials
spellingShingle Inmaculada Cebrián
Gloria Moreno
Labour Market Intermittency and Its Effect on Gender Wage Gap in Spain
Revue Interventions Économiques
labour market trajectories
interruptions
index of intermittency
gender wage differentials
title Labour Market Intermittency and Its Effect on Gender Wage Gap in Spain
title_full Labour Market Intermittency and Its Effect on Gender Wage Gap in Spain
title_fullStr Labour Market Intermittency and Its Effect on Gender Wage Gap in Spain
title_full_unstemmed Labour Market Intermittency and Its Effect on Gender Wage Gap in Spain
title_short Labour Market Intermittency and Its Effect on Gender Wage Gap in Spain
title_sort labour market intermittency and its effect on gender wage gap in spain
topic labour market trajectories
interruptions
index of intermittency
gender wage differentials
url https://journals.openedition.org/interventionseconomiques/1950
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