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Pay Differences Between Women's and Men's Jobs : The Empirical Foundations of Comparable Worth Legislation

Johnson, George E. - 1984

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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Sources of Bias in Women's Wage Equations : Results Using Sibling Data

Neumark, David - 1992

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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The Gender Gap in Self-Promotion

Exley, Christine L. - 2019

favorably than equally performing men. This gender gap in self-promotion is notably persistent. It stays just as strong when we …: eliminate gender differences in confidence about performance, eliminate incentives to self-promote, provide information about …-promotion opportunities, this self-promotion gap may contribute to persistent gender gaps in education and labor market outcomes …

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Explaining Women's Success : Technological Change and the Skill Content of Women's Work

Black, Sandra E. - 2007

The closing of the gender wage gap is an ongoing phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, research has been … women to that of men. In this study, we use a new approach for analyzing changes in the gender pay gap that uses direct … substantial fraction of the closing of the gender wage gap. Our evidence suggests that these task changes are driven, at least in …

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People People : Social Capital and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups

Borghans, Lex - 2006

Despite indications that people skills are important for understanding individual labor-market outcomes and have become more important over the last decades, there is little analysis by economists. This paper shows that people skills are important determinants of labor-market outcomes, including...

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Gronau, Reuben - 1982

Sex-related wage differentials are almost universal. Economists traditionally tend to attribute a major fraction of the differential to the difference in on-the-job training. This difference is in turn often explained by the lower profitability of this investment for women who plan to interrupt...

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The Historical Evolution of Female Earnings Functions and Occupations

Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1980

Of all the changes in the history of women's market work, few have been more impressive than the rapid emergence and feminization of the clerical sector and the related decline in manufacturing employment for women. Although a century ago few women were clerical workers, as early as 1920 22% of...

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The Work and Wages of Single Women : 1870 to 1920

Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1979

conditions of women in 1888 and 1907 enable the estimation of earnings functions. Work in the manufacturing sector for these …

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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 - 1995

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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