The role of labor market intermittency in explaining gender wage differentials

Julie L. Hotchkiss and M. Melinda Pitts

Using the Health and Retirement Survey and standard wage decomposition techniques, this paper finds that the difference in intermittent labor force participation between men and women accounts for 47 percent of the contribution to the wage gap of differences in observed characteristics. Not controlling for intermittent behavior results in too much importance being placed on gender differences in job characteristics. -- Gender wage differentials ; Oaxaca decomposition ; intermittent labor supply ; time allocation

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Year of publication:	2007
Other Persons:	Hotchkiss, Julie L. (contributor) ; Pitts, M. Melinda (contributor)
Publisher:	Atlanta, Ga. : Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Subject:	Erwerbsverlauf \| Occupational attainment \| Lohnstruktur \| Wage structure \| Fraueneinkommen \| Women's earnings \| Empirische Methode \| Empirical method \| USA \| United States

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Extent:	Online-Ressource, (16,4 S.)
Series:	Working papers / Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. - Atlanta, Ga. : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ISSN 1936-5225, ZDB-ID 2171117-3. - Vol. 2007-1
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
Notes:	Systemvoraussetzungen: Acrobat reader
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/70614 [Handle]
Classification:	J31 - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials by Skill, Training, Occupation, etc ; J22 - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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