The issue of regional wage differentials is relevant both for policy proposes and general public discussion. A sound knowledge of the distribution of wage inequalities and their causes is essential for defining policy measures for reducing spatial income inequalities. A range of empirical...

Studies on intra-regional inequality are scarce, particularly for European countries. This paper aims at further investigating inequality by focusing on wage differences within regions. We consider the case of Portugal which is referred as one of the countries with highest economic inequality....

We estimate the cyclicalities of the gender wage gap (GWG) and of its unexplained component (an estimate of wage discrimination), both at the mean and along the wage distribution. Using reweighting methods, to keep the sample structure constant along the business cycle, we apply an...