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February 8, 2026Open Access

The gender wage gap in the public and private sectors: The Spanish experience

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PMPatricia Moreno MencíaASAna Isabel Fernández SainzJPJuan Manuel Rodríguez Poo

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Quantile regression reveals wage disparities by gender in Spain's public and private sectors, indicating potential discrimination patterns.

Key Points

  • This analysis investigates the gender wage gap across the wage distribution in Spanish public and private sectors.
  • Analyzed microdata from the Wage Structure Survey
  • Utilized quantile regression techniques
  • Addressed sample selection bias in the model
  • Compared wage distributions between sectors for men and women
  • Public sector employees earn higher wages than private sector counterparts
  • Gender wage gap varies significantly across the wage distribution
  • Discrimination is higher at the top of the wage distribution compared to the bottom
  • Gap explained by different characteristics is larger for lower-wage workers in both sectors

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Mencía et al. (2020) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/698827e20fc35cd7a8846e7fhttps://doi.org/10.1177/13505068209790
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