Abstract

MENDOZA COTA, Jorge Eduardo  and  GARCIA BERMUDEZ, Karina Jazmín. Discriminación salarial por género en México. Prob. Des [online]. 2009, vol.40, n.156, pp.78-99. ISSN 0301-7036.

The present work analyzes the existence of gender wage discrimination in Mexico in 2006. Starting from the human capital theory, the Oaxaca-Blinder (1973) method is used to carry out wage breakdowns. By applying this methodology we find that wage discrimination causes women to earn wages that are 12.4% less than do men with equal characteristics in human capital terms. In the north of Mexico wages are estimated to be 7% lower, while for the central region they were 11.2% less and in the south the difference was at its highest with women's wages 18.3% less than men's. This corroborates the situation of income inequality by gender that exists between the regions under analysis.

Keywords : labor market; wage discrimination; human capital; returns to education; wage distribution.