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The Gender Earnings Gap : Some International Evidence
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2022
This paper uses micro-data to analyze international differences in the gender pay gap among a sample of ten … industrialized countries. Empirical research on gender pay gaps has traditionally focused on the role of gender-specific factors …, particularly gender differences in qualifications and differences in the treatment of otherwise equally qualified male and female …
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The Gender Pay Gap
Blau, Francine D. - 2021
Empirical research on gender pay gaps has traditionally focused on the role of gender-specific factors, particularly … gender differences in qualifications and differences in the treatment of otherwise equally qualified male and female workers … (i.e., labor market discrimination). This paper explores the determinants of the gender pay gap and argues for the …
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Pay Differences between Women's and Men's Jobs : the Empirical Foundations of Comparable Worth Legislation
Johnson, George; Solon, Gary - 2022
Civil rights legislation of the 1960s made it illegal foran employer to pay men and women on different bases for the same work or to discriminate against women in hiring, job assignment, or promotion. Two decades later, however, the ratio of women's to men's earnings has shown little upward...
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The Glass Ceiling and the Paper Floor : Gender Differences Among Top Earners, 1981-2012
Guvenen, Fatih - 2014
We analyze changes in the gender structure at the top of the earnings distribution in the United States over the last … changes in industry and age composition to the change in the gender composition of top earners. A large proportion of the … gender gaps over the life cycle, and gender differences among lifetime top earners …
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Marriage, Motherhood, and Wages
Korenman, Sanders - 2010
We explore several problems in drawing causal inferences from cross-sectional relationships between marriage, motherhood, and wages. We find that heterogeneity leads to biased estimates of the quot;directquot; effects of marriage and motherhood on wages (i.e., effects net of experience and...
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Sources of Bias in Women's Wage Equations : Results Using Sibling Data
Neumark, David - 2010
We use data on sisters to jointly address heterogeneity bias and endogeneity bias in estimates of wage equations for women. This analysis yields evidence of biases in OLS estimates of wage equations for white and black women, some of which are detected only when these two sources of bias are...
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Female Earnings Inequality : The Changing Role of Family Characteristics on the Extensive and Intensive Margins
Card, David - 2018
Although women make up nearly half the U.S. workforce, most studies of earnings inequality focus on men. This is at least in part because of the complexity of modeling both the decision to work (i.e., the extensive margin) and the level of earnings conditional on work (the intensive margin). In...
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Relative Income Concerns and the Rise in Married Women's Employment
Neumark, David; Postlewaite, Andrew - 2022
We ask whether women's decisions to be in the labor force may be affected by the decisions of other women in ways not captured by standard models. We develop a model that augments the simple neoclassical framework by introducing relative income concerns into women's (or families') utility...
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Comparable Worth in the Public Sector
Ehrenberg, Ronald G.; Smith, Robert S. - 2022
Proponents of comparable worth assert that within a firm jobs can be valued in terms of the skill, effort and responsibility they require, as well as the working conditions they offer, and that jobs that are of comparable worth to the firm should receive equal compensation. After documenting the...
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The Measured Black-White Wage Gap Among Women is Too Small
Neal, Derek A. - 2021
Taken as a whole, the literature on black-white wage inequality suggests that racial gaps in potential wages are much larger among men than women, and further that one can accurately assess black-white gaps in potential wages among women without accounting for black-white differences in patterns...
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