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Do M editerraneans really do it better? Explaining the lower gender wage gap in southern E uropean countries
Author(s) -
AlaezAller Ricardo,
LongasGarcia Juan Carlos,
UllibarriArce Miren
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international journal of social welfare
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.664
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1468-2397
pISSN - 1369-6866
DOI - 10.1111/ijsw.12111
Subject(s) - wage , economics , eu countries , demographic economics , european union , value (mathematics) , gender gap , labour economics , international economics , machine learning , computer science
This article sets out to help provide a more detailed explanation for the narrower gender wage gap in M editerranean countries. Two explanatory hypotheses are put forward and compared empirically using the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU‐SILC). The most widely accepted hypothesis is that gender wage gaps across countries are negatively correlated with gender employment gaps. The second hypothesis, however, is supported by evidence that the narrower wage gap in Mediterranean countries could be due to the differences in demand for labour in EU countries as a result ultimately of decisions by major corporations concerning the location of the activities in their value chain.