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Blau, Francine D. - 1992

In this paper we review research findings from the 1980s and early 1990s on race and gender pay gaps. In addition. we present some evidence from the Current Population Surveys (1972, 1982 and 1989) regarding the impact of shifts in the industrial composition of employment and in interindustry...

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Gender Differences in Pay

Blau, Francine D. - 2000

qualifications and discrimination, and overall wage structure, the rewards for skills and employment in particular sectors …

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Gender and Assimilation Among Mexican Americans

Blau, Francine D. - 2005

generation. Immigrants' higher fertility does not assimilate toward the native level, and, while the …strongly influence the outcomes and behavior of Mexican immigrants. On arrival in the United …women) and wage gaps with nonhispanic whites. Female immigrants' high marriage rates assimilate …

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The US Gender Pay Gap in the 1990s : Slowing Convergence

Blau, Francine D. - 2004

discrimination, and changes in the favorableness of supply and demand shifts. We find some evidence consistent with each of these …

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Understanding International Differences in the Gender Pay Gap

Blau, Francine D. - 2001

This paper tests the hypotheses that overall wage compression and low female supply relative to demand reduce a country's gender pay gap. Using micro-data for 22 countries over the 1985-94 period, we find that more compressed male wage structures and lower female net supply are both associated...

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The Impact of Selection into the Labor Force on the Gender Wage Gap

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Boboshko, Nikolai; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We study the impact of selection bias on estimates of the gender pay gap, focusing on whether the gender pay gap has fallen since 1981. Previous research has found divergent results across techniques, identification strategies, data sets, and time periods. Using Michigan Panel Study of Income...

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Gender and Youth Employment Outcomes : The US and West Germany, 1984-91

Blau, Francine D. - 1997

This paper examines gender differences in labor market outcomes for hard-to-employ youth in the US and West Germany during the 1984-91 period. We find that young, less educated American men and especially women are far less likely to be employed than their German counterparts. Moreover, less...

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The Impact of Wage Structure on Trends in U.S. Gender Wage Differentials 1975-1987

Blau, Francine D. - 1994

The U.S labor market experienced two dramatic developments over the past twenty years: a falling male-female pay gap and a rising level of wage inequality. This paper uses Michigan Panel Study on Income Dynamics (PSID) data for 1975 and 1987 and Current Population Survey (CPS) data for 1971 and...

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The Gender Earnings Gap : Some International Evidence

Blau, Francine D. - 1992

workers (i.e., labor market discrimination). An innovative feature of our study is to focus on the role of wage structure …

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Is There Still Son Preference in the United States?

Blau, Francine D. - 2017

immigrants and natives. Among the population in the aggregate, as well as among the native-born separately, consistent with Dahl … costly. For immigrants, we also find evidence that having a female first child contributes to female headship, with an effect … further supported by evidence that, for both first and second generation immigrants (second generation immigrants were …

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