Differences in the occupational distributions of men and women represent an important source of male-female differentials. Yet most studies of wage differences concentrate only on either occupational segregation or the problem of unequal pay for equal work. This study refines and merges these...

The authors use multinomial logit and multiple discriminant analyses to predict the probabilities that an individual will attain each of several occupational categories based on that individual's characteristics and qualifications. By estimating the parameters of this model from a sample of men...