Recent publications have argued that (1) differences in performance of men and women in university faculties account for most or all of the existing differences in rank and salary, (2) faculty wives receive preferential treatment in order to attract their husbands, and (3) affirmative action is...

This paper addresses the question of why young people go on from school to higher education in Australia. A person situation interactionist theory to explain decisions taken in the matter is developed, and in the light of this theory a model to predict ...

Using detailed information on the career plans and earnings expectations of college business school seniors, we test the hypothesis that women who plan to work intermittently choose jobs with lower rewards to work experience in return for lower penalties for labor force interruptions. We find...

Three estimates of potential earnings of women not in the labor force, based on two data sets, were obtained (1) by using the coefficients from the regression of employed women with characteristics of the homemaker, (2) by using Heckman's adjustment for selection bias, and (3) by using the...

Using data on faculty salaries at a large university, we follow a methodology suggested by Goldberger to conduct an empirical test of the Conway-Roberts proposition that reverse and not forward regression is the proper way to detect salary discrimination. We obtained 11 different estimates of...