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Author: Fan, Xueqing
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Fan, Xueqing |
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You're Educated, Now What? The Over-Time Effects of Education on Gender Wage Inequality Master's Thesis, Department of Industrial Relations and Human Resources, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, 2021 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Gender Differences; Occupations; Wage Gap; Wage Growth Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Utilizing nationally representative panel data from the U.S. (8,433 individuals, 18 years), this study explores the effect of employees' educational attainments on gender wage inequality from a dynamic perspective. I treat education as a life-altering event that initiates a new wage trajectory by the shaping wage level and setting the pace of wage growth. Drawing on human capital theory and the framework of wage inequality processes (i.e., allocative inequality, valuative inequality, and within-job inequality), I argue that educational attainments lead to differential intraindividual changes in the wage trajectories for men and women. I find that educational attainments are followed by an immediate increase in pay level and a greater wage growth rate for both women and men. After educational attainments, while women could attain a greater immediate increase in pay level by transferring to occupations that are considered more prestigious, they suffer from a slower rate of wage growth than men. I also find that the positive effect of holding prestigious jobs on wage growth is stronger when the occupations are more represented by men rather than women. |
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Fan, Xueqing. You're Educated, Now What? The Over-Time Effects of Education on Gender Wage Inequality. Master's Thesis, Department of Industrial Relations and Human Resources, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, 2021. |
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Fan, Xueqing Sturman, Michael |
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Has Higher Education Solved the Problem? Examining the Gender Wage Gap of Recent College Graduates Entering the Workplace Compensation and Benefits Review 51,1 (2019): 5-12. Also: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0886368719856268 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Sage Publications Keyword(s): College Education; College Graduates; Gender Differences; Wage Gap Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. While there has been extensive historical evidence demonstrating the gender wage gap, gains made by women in terms of higher education may be reducing the gap among those recently entering the workforce. Education is a major determinant of wage, and women are often outpacing men now in terms of educational achievement. Thus, the question remains of whether these gains in education have reduced or even eliminated gender wage inequality. This study examines the gender wage difference among new graduates with the same education level using the most recent data from National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 cohort. Despite the hope that greater representation of women with higher degrees would reduce or eliminate the gender wage gap for new entrants to the labor market, our results show that newly graduated men with an associate, bachelor's, or master's degree still earn significantly higher wages than newly graduated women with a same degree. Thus, in what we argue is a highly conservative test for the presence of the gender wage gap, the evidence strongly suggests that the wage gap is a continued and pervasive problem in the modern workplace. |
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Fan, Xueqing and Michael Sturman. "Has Higher Education Solved the Problem? Examining the Gender Wage Gap of Recent College Graduates Entering the Workplace ." Compensation and Benefits Review 51,1 (2019): 5-12.
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