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Title: Catching Up: The Gender Gap in Wages, Circa 2000
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O'Neill, June E. |
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Catching Up: The Gender Gap in Wages, Circa 2000 Presented: Washington, DC, Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association, January 2003 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Economic Association Keyword(s): Employment; Gender Differences; Wage Gap; Wages, Women; Women Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The transition of women in to the U.S. labor market was surely one of the most profound economic and social changes of the 20th century. In 1900 about 20 percent of women were in the labor force. This percentage rose to about 34 in 1950 and reached 61 percent in 2000; not far below the 75-percent participation rate of men. A key element in this change was the dramatic rise in market work among married women with children under the age of 18, whose labor-force participation increased from a rate of 18 percent in 1950 to 71 percent in 2000. However, for much of the last 50 years the rise in women's labor-force activity and its growing convergence with that of men, did not appear to be matched by a narrowing of the gender gap in pay...Through the years the gender gap in wages frequently has been a source of public concern and a puzzle to researchers. In this paper, I examine evidence from the Current Population Survey and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79) on recent trends and current sources of the gender gap. |
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O'Neill, June E. "Catching Up: The Gender Gap in Wages, Circa 2000." Presented: Washington, DC, Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association, January 2003. |