论文标题
通过经济活动来解决性别薪酬差距分解的新方法
A new approach to the gender pay gap decomposition by economic activity
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论文摘要
本文的目的是提出一种估计性别薪酬差距的原始方法。我们提出了一种基于模型的分解，类似于最受欢迎的方法，其中第一组件衡量了群体特征的差异，而第二个成分可以测量无法解释的效果。后者是真正的差距。这种新方法结合了模型选择和偏置校正。 ％，避免标准方法的主要局限性，这是对解释变量的选择和回归中功能形式的依赖。在本文中考虑了小区域环境中的薪酬差距问题，尽管该方法可以灵活地应用于其他情况。 具体而言，该方法已通过在加利西亚地区（西班牙）地区的经济活动进行验证，并通过分析模仿实际数据产生的实验设计的模拟数据来分析工资差异。在两种情况下，都显示了提出的估计量的良好性能，特别是与广泛使用的瓦哈卡雪橇方法相比。
The aim of this paper is to present an original approach to estimate the gender pay gap. We propose a model-based decomposition, similar to the most popular approaches, where the first component measures differences in group characteristics and the second component measures the unexplained effect; the latter being the real gap. The novel approach incorporates model selection and bias correction. %, avoiding the main limitation of standard approaches, which is the dependence on the choice of explanatory variables and the functional form in regression. The pay gap problem in a small area context is considered in this paper, although the approach is flexible to be applied to other contexts. Specifically, the methodology is validated for analysing wage differentials by economic activities in the region of Galicia (Spain) and by analysing simulated data from an experimental design that imitates the generation of real data. The good performance of the proposed estimators is shown in both cases, specifically when compared with those obtained from the widely used Oaxaca-Blinder approach.
