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THE EFFECT OF THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING LEVEL ON THE GENDER WAGE GAP: EVIDENCE FROM SPAIN *
Author(s) -
FELGUEROSO FLORENTINO,
PÉREZVILLADÓNIGA MARÍA J.,
PRIETORODRIGUEZ JUAN
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
the manchester school
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.361
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1467-9957
pISSN - 1463-6786
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9957.2008.01061.x
Subject(s) - wage , economics , glass ceiling , collective bargaining , labour economics , distribution (mathematics) , wage inequality , wage bargaining , influence function , efficiency wage , mathematical analysis , statistics , mathematics , estimator , economic growth
Several studies have found a negative relationship between the level of collective bargaining centralization and the degree of wage inequality. So, more centralized bargaining seems to lead to lower wage gaps. On the other hand, there is evidence that the gender wage gap increases as we move upwards along the wage distribution, illustrating the glass ceiling hypothesis. In this paper we study how the wage gap changes throughout the distribution of wages, as a function of the level of collective bargaining by which workers are covered, using data from the Spanish Wage Structure Survey of 2002.