TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Rica, Sara de la
AU  - Dolado, Juan J.
AU  - Vegas, Raquel
        TI  - Performance Pay and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Spain
        PY  - 2010/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 5032
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5032
        AB  - This paper uses detailed information from a large wage survey in 2006 to analyze the gender wage gap in the performance-pay (PP) component of total hourly wages and its contribution to the overall gender gap in Spain. Under the assumption that PP is determined in a more competitive fashion than the other wage components, one would expect, in principle, to find a low gender gap in PP. However, this is not what we find. After controlling for observable differences in individual and job characteristics as well as for non random selection, the adjusted gender gap in PP reaches 26 log points, displaying a "glass ceiling" pattern. After examining several alternative theories that could rationalize these findings, we conjecture that monopsonistic features, possibly related to women's lower labour mobility due to housework, fit better with our results than other theories related to occupational segregation.
        KW  - gender gaps
KW  - selection bias
KW  - quantile regressions
KW  - performance pay
        ER  -