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Title: Wage Patterns of Women Over the Business Cycle
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Tremblay, Carol Horton |
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Wage Patterns of Women Over the Business Cycle Quarterly Review of Economics and Business 30,1 (Spring 1990): 90-101 Cohort(s): Young Men, Young Women Publisher: Bureau of Economic and Business Research, University of Illinois, see Elsevier Science Keyword(s): Business Cycles; Discrimination, Sex; Labor Supply; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Selectivity Bias/Selection Bias; Sex Equality; Wages Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. An investigation is made of the behavior of real wages over business cycles for women. The data source is the NLS of Young Women for the years 1968-1973, 1975, 1977, and 1978. The sample was limited to individuals aged 16 or over who work at least 35 hours per week. The study made 4,053 observations on white women and 1,396 observations on nonwhite women aged 16 to 34. It is shown that young women in the late 1960s and 1970s encountered procyclical real wage behavior as did their male counterparts. White women experienced a 0.4% pay increase and nonwhite women experienced a 0.5% raise when the local unemployment rate declined by 1%. Panel data estimates of a selectivity-adjusted, fixed-effects wage model also reveal significantly greater procyclical real wage behavior for white men than for white women. The procyclical wage patterns are consistent with the Barro-Grossman disequilibrium model and the view that workers with specific training investments prefer wage reductions to layoffs in recessions. [ABI/INFORM] |
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Tremblay, Carol Horton. "Wage Patterns of Women Over the Business Cycle." Quarterly Review of Economics and Business 30,1 (Spring 1990): 90-101.
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