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Title: Recent Trends and Current Sources of the Gender Wage Gap in the U.S.
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O'Neill, June E. |
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Recent Trends and Current Sources of the Gender Wage Gap in the U.S. Presented: Buch, Germany, IZA/SOLE Transatlantic Meeting of Labor Economists, June 2003. Also: http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/events/transatlantic/papers_2003/oneil.pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Keyword(s): Current Population Survey (CPS) / CPS-Fertility Supplement; Gender Differences; Wage Gap Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Between 1983 and 2001 the female to male hourly wage ratio increased from 70% to 80%. I use the Current Population Survey (CPS) outgoing rotation groups, merged with data on occupational characteristics, to identify basic sources of that trend and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1979 cohort (NLSY79) to analyze in more depth the gender gap for workers ages 35-43 in 2000. The CPS analysis indicates that gender differences in basic demographic variables accounted for a larger share of the unadjusted wage gap in the 1980s than in the 1990s, primarily because of convergence in schooling. Years of work experience are not measured in the CPS. However, I infer that the gender gap in actual work experience is likely to have continued to narrow in the 1990s (it is known to have narrowed in the 80's) because women's returns to potential experience continued to increase relative to men's; and this was a significant factor in narrowing the unadjusted wage gap. (My inference is based on the presumption that the return to potential experience in part reflects the ratio of actual to potential experience.) However, women and men continue to be employed in quite different occupations. As other factors have converged, occupational characteristics, reflecting features that are compatible with women's dual home/market roles, account for a larger component of the wage gap. Adjusted for male-female differences in demographic, workplace and occupational characteristics, the female/male wage ratio rose from 84% in 1983 to 90% in 2001. |
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O'Neill, June E. "Recent Trends and Current Sources of the Gender Wage Gap in the U.S." Presented: Buch, Germany, IZA/SOLE Transatlantic Meeting of Labor Economists, June 2003. |