Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/259455 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Citation: 
[Journal:] Latin American Economic Review [ISSN:] 2196-436X [Volume:] 29 [Issue:] 1 [Article No.:] 5 [Publisher:] Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE) [Place:] Ciudad de México [Year:] 2020 [Pages:] 1-20
Publisher: 
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE), Ciudad de México
Abstract: 
This paper aims to analyze the hourly gender wage gap between men and women in Mexico for the period 2005-2020. To this end, a number of variables is selected to reflect workers' human capital, household circumstances and workplace characteristics; then, a novel non-parametric method decomposes wage differentials between men and women into its composition and structure effects throughout the distribution of labor income. Results are consistent with the sticky-floor hypothesis, where male workers earn higher hourly wages than female workers at low income levels. However, differentials decrease in the upper part of the distribution and may even reverse, favoring women over men at the highest income levels.
Subjects: 
income distribution
gender wage gap
gender wage discrimination
non-parametric methods
sticky floors
JEL: 
C14
J16
J24
J31
J71
O54
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Article

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