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Title: Two Sides of the Same Coin: U.S. "Residual" Inequality and the Gender Gap
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Bacolod, Marigee Ponla Blum, Bernardo S. |
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Two Sides of the Same Coin: U.S. "Residual" Inequality and the Gender Gap Journal of Human Resources 45,1 (Winter 2010): 97-242. Also: http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/45/1/197.short Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Keyword(s): Current Population Survey (CPS) / CPS-Fertility Supplement; Gender Differences; Noncognitive Skills; Skills; Wage Gap We show that the narrowing gender gap and the growth in earnings inequality are consistent with a simple model in which skills are heterogeneous, and the growth in skill prices has been particularly strong for skills with which women are well endowed. Empirical analysis of DOT, CPS, and NLSY79 data finds evidence to support this model. A large increase in the prices of cognitive and people skills--skills with which women are well endowed--and a decline in the price of motor skills account for up to 40 percent of the rising inequality and 20 percent of the narrowing gender gap. |
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Bacolod, Marigee Ponla and Bernardo S. Blum. "Two Sides of the Same Coin: U.S. "Residual" Inequality and the Gender Gap." Journal of Human Resources 45,1 (Winter 2010): 97-242.
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