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| Title: | The Effect of occupational sex-composition on earnings: job-specialisation, sex-role attitudes and the division of domestic-labour in Spain |
| Authors: | Polavieja, Javier G. |
| Other authors: | Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament de Ciències Polítiques i Socials |
| Subjects: | Dones -- Treball
Discriminació sexual en el treball
Dones -- Retorn al mercat de treball |
| Creation Date: | Dec-2006 |
| Series/Report no.: | DemoSoc working papers ; 18 |
| Abstract: | Important theoretical controversies remain unresolved in the literatire on occupational sex-segregation and the gender wage-gap. A useful way of summarising these controversies is viewing them as a debate between - cultural -socialisation. The paper discusses these theories in detail and carries out a preliminary test of the relative explanatory performance of some of their most consequential predictions. This is done by drawing on the Spanish sample of the second wave of the European Social Survey, ESS. The empirical analysis of ESS data illustrates the notable analytical pay-offs that can stem from using rich individual-level indicators, but also exemplifies the statistical llimitations generated by small sample size and high rates of non-response. Empirical results should, therefore, be taken as preliminary. They seem to suggest that the effect of occupational sex-segregation on wages could be explicable by workers' sex-role attitutes, their relative input in domestic production and the job-specific human capital requirements of their jobs. Of these three factors, job-specialisation seeems clearly the most important one. |
| Appears in Collections: | DemoSoc Working Papers
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