Monograph "ICT and work: towards new organisational systems, new salary and employment structures, and new mechanisms for intermediation"
Salary gaps in the knowledge economy: an empirical analysis for Spain
Ángel Díaz-Chao (adiazch@funep.es)
SEPI Foundation (Spanish Ministry of Economy)
Department of Applied Economics I (King Juan Carlos University)
abstract
The analysis of salary gaps has been the subject of many studies from the different trends that have marked labour economics. Salary gaps have been attributed to differences among employees themselves (experience, education, etc.) or the company structure or environment (strategy, organisation, institutions, technological changes, etc.). This article analyses salary gaps in the context of the knowledge economy. With data from the salary structure survey produced by the Spanish National Institute of Statistics (INE), we can see a positive link with the levels of knowledge in a company's activities and the use of ICT by employees. Likewise, greater salary gaps are seen between men and women in companies with lower levels of knowledge.
keywords
gender, information and communication technologies (ICT), knowledge economy, salaries, salary gaps
Submission date:
January 2008
Accepted in:
February 2008
Published in:
April 2008
editorial
Towards a global, knowledge-based economy: the effects of ICT on employment
in-depth
Open research – the ORS way, by Miltiadis Lytras and Miguel-Ángel Sicilia. Presentation by Julià Minguillón
dossier
ICT and work: towards new organisational systems, new salary and employment structures, and new mechanisms for intermediation, coordinated by Joan Torrent
Electronic skill-biased technological change (e-SBTC), employment and salaries: the state of the question, by Joan Torrent
Networked organisation of work: an empirical approach for Catalan businesses, by Pilar Ficapal-Cusí
Salary gaps in the knowledge economy: an empirical analysis for Spain, by Ángel Díaz-Chao
Who looks for work on the internet?, by Elena González-Rodrigo and Jorge Sainz-Gonzalez
miscellany
How do people work in a multilingual virtual classroom? A multilingual learning environment using Moodle and Apertium, by Antoni Oliver and Cristina Borrell
Digital literacy as a factor for social inclusion: a critical perspective, by José Luis Travieso and Jordi Planella
reviews
Feminismo y Conocimiento. De la experiencia de las mujeres al cíborg, by Carme Adán. by M. Antònia Huertas
selection of books
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