RETURN OF THE INTERNAL MOBILITY IN THE SPANISH LABOUR MARKET: DIFFERENCES BY GENDER

Dolores GARCIA-CRESPO (University of Malaga)

The aim of this paper is to compare the return of internal mobility by gender in the Spanish Labour Market in order to detect a discrimination treatment in the workplace. By using data from the Encuesta de Estructura, Conciencia y Biografia de Clase (1991) we estimate a variant of the Mincer equation including sample selection according to Heckman's approach. The main results obtained are: (i) internal mobility at firm is a very important factor that increase workers's wages; (ii) there is no evidence in favor to internal mobility is rewarded in different way by gender; (iii) if the rate of promoted females was equal to males one, gender wage gap would be lower.