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Author: Way, Megan McDonald
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1. Simon, Jessica
Way, Megan McDonald
Returns to Education for Self-Employed US Millennials and the Self-Employment Gender Earnings Gap: A Quantile Regression Approach
Presented: Washington DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2016
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Educational Returns; Gender Differences; Modeling, OLS; Self-Employed Workers; Wage Gap

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

Self-employed women, though more highly educated than self-employed men, earn approximately 75% of male counterparts' earnings on an hourly basis. Could differing returns to education for self-employed men and women explain some of this gap? We examine economic returns to education for the most highly educated working generation, the Millennials, considering both human capital and signaling theory. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 cohort, we apply OLS and quantile regression to samples of both wage-employed and self-employed Millennial women and men. We find that, generally, returns to education do not differ between self-employed and wage-employed, or between male and female self-employed in this age group, suggesting that women would be experiencing an even higher gender wage gap without their educational edge over men. We also find some differences in returns to education along the income distribution, which may indicate a breakdown of signaling theory when applied to self-employment.
Bibliography Citation
Simon, Jessica and Megan McDonald Way. "Returns to Education for Self-Employed US Millennials and the Self-Employment Gender Earnings Gap: A Quantile Regression Approach." Presented: Washington DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2016.
2. Simon, Jessica
Way, Megan McDonald
Why the Gap? Determinants of Self-Employment Earnings Differentials for Male and Female Millennials in the US
Journal of Family and Economic Issues 37,2 (June 2016): 297-312.
Also: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10834-015-9452-5
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Springer
Keyword(s): Gender Differences; Motherhood; Self-Employed Workers; Wage Gap

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

We investigated gender differences in self-employment earnings for US Millennials, and whether differences could be attributed to individual characteristics, business characteristics, or factors related to household formation, such as marriage and parenthood. Using a nationally representative dataset of US youth, we found significant earnings differences favoring men and suggestive evidence of a "motherhood earnings penalty" (Budig and England 2001, p. 204–225). After controlling for business characteristics, however, the effect of gender itself was not statistically significant and the effect of motherhood only approached statistical significance, suggesting that gendered choices and paths explain earnings differences, not gender or motherhood per se. Future work would benefit from a larger dataset and should explore the role of work location and education in earnings.
Bibliography Citation
Simon, Jessica and Megan McDonald Way. "Why the Gap? Determinants of Self-Employment Earnings Differentials for Male and Female Millennials in the US." Journal of Family and Economic Issues 37,2 (June 2016): 297-312.
3. Simon, Jessica
Way, Megan McDonald
Working from Home and the Gender Gap in Earnings for Self-employed US Millennials
Gender in Management: An International Journal 30,3 (2015): 206-224.
Also: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/GM-07-2014-0067
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Emerald
Keyword(s): Earnings; Gender Differences; Self-Employed Workers; Wage Gap; Work, Atypical

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

This paper aims to explore gender differences in terms of self-employment for US Millennials, relating them to working from home as well as other factors.
Bibliography Citation
Simon, Jessica and Megan McDonald Way. "Working from Home and the Gender Gap in Earnings for Self-employed US Millennials." Gender in Management: An International Journal 30,3 (2015): 206-224.