Entry Level Salaries of Academic Economists: Does Gender or Age Matter?

Formby, John P.; Gunther, William D.; Sakano, Ryoichi

doi:10.1111/j.1465-7295.1993.tb00871.x

Cited by 33 publications

(35 citation statements)

References 5 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Mirroring the classical theory of wage discrimination (as set forth by Kenneth Arrow 1973), the source of different outcomes for the two genders in these recent theories is employers' reluctance to admit women into the firm for reasons such as unwarranted concern about productivity or co-worker dislike for working with women as equals. Alternatively, supply-side explanations suggest that women's lower investment in training and lesser job effort (presumably from family commitments) are the ultimate cause of their reduced scientific productivity and slower career advancement (John Formby, William Gunther, and Ryoichy Sakano 1993). Whatever the initial source, the disadvantage proves to be cumulative; one missed or delayed step means missing the chance to climb to the next.…”

Section: The Study Of Women's Presence On the Boards: A Rationalementioning

confidence: 97%

The Editorial Boards of Italian Economics Journals: Women, Gender, and Social Networking

Addis

Villa

2003

Feminist Economics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In Italy, women's advancement in economics has been curtailed by the structure of editorial boards of Italian economics journals. In this paper, we examine the presence of men and women economists on the editorial boards of thirty-six Italian economics journals published since 1970 and analyze the gender distribution across different kinds of boards, roles, and fields. Because boards are hierarchically ordered, women work mostly in the lower positions, and the increase in women's participation has led only to more "editorial secretaries." Since men and women tend to have different scientific interests and men's standards of academic value prevail, women economists cannot build publication records as strong as those of their male colleagues, which, in turn, affects women's hiring, promotion, and wages, as well as the shape of the discipline.Gender, Economics, Networking, Discrimination, Editorial Boards,

show abstract

Section: The Study Of Women's Presence On the Boards: A Rationalementioning

confidence: 97%

The Editorial Boards of Italian Economics Journals: Women, Gender, and Social Networking

Addis

Villa

2003

Feminist Economics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…There also seemed to be a period during the 1970s when women may have entered academic positions in Ph.D.-granting economics departments more than men did, but this was no longer true by the 1980s (CSWEP, 1994;Willis and Pieper, 1992). Once controls for employer and background characteristics are included, there do seem to have been gender differences in academic starting salaries overall in the '70s and '80s, but these differences also have largely disappeared by the end of this period (Formby, Gunther and Sakano, 1993;Kahn, 1995).…”

Section: First Jobs For Tenure-track Academics or Nonacademicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This gender difference seems to be particular to the GRE format, since it is not replicated in an alternative standardized test, the Major Field Achievement Test in economics. These facts, and some hypotheses to explain them based on the relationship between self-esteem and test formats, are made in Hirschfield, Moore and Brown (1995).…”

Section: Gre Scoresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Women in the Economics Profession

Kahn

1995

Journal of Economic Perspectives

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

T he early 1970s was a watershed for women in many academic fields, including economics. As the feminist revolution swept through the nation and government pressure to equalize employment opportunities in the workplace increased, academia began to evaluate its own performance and attitudes toward women. In 1971, an informal women's caucus got a series of resolutions passed at the AEA Annual Meeting by proposing them unexpectedly and stacking the meeting with supporters. As part of these resolutions, the AEA set up the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP). The committee was ad hoc at first, but later changed to a standing committee. Its mandate was to ferret out the facts on discrimination against women in economics and to make "recommendations for affirmative action." The resolution even called for CSWEP and the AEA to use these facts in amicus curiae briefs in discrimination complaints or suits, although CSWEP has never chosen to exercise this option.Since that time, women have made great inroads in the economics profession. Far more women are represented at each level of the profession. Salary differentials between the sexes have fallen. Awareness has increased. Yet the percentage of women among full professors remains only 4 percent. It seems apt at this point, more than two decades later, to reassess the economics profession's record on women. Just as physicians are sometimes admonished to heal themselves, economists should presumably be able to do a better job than other academic specialties of measuring and understanding gender differences within our own labor market.

show abstract

“…The results of research specifically examining the extent to which sex differences in faculty salaries are attributable to differences in starting salaries are inconclusive, with Hirsch and Leppel (1982), who conducted a single-institution study, concluding that differences in male and female earnings profiles were primarily due to differences in starting salaries, and Formby, Gunther, and Sakano (1993), who controlled for characteristics of the employing department and other characteristics, concluding that the starting salaries of women and men faculty were comparable. This study seeks to improve our understanding of sex differences in faculty salaries by examining differences among faculty with the same academic rank and comparable levels of experience.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Sex Differences in Faculty Salaries: A Cohort Analysis

Perna¹

2001

rhe

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This study draws upon human capital and structural perspectives to explore the extent to which the lower salaries observed for full-time faculty women compared to their male colleagues vary across different rank/experience cohorts. Descriptive and regression analyses are used to address the research questions. Data are from the 1993 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty. The analyses reveal that, among the ÒolderÓ faculty at each rank, women receive lower salaries than men even after controlling for other variables.

show abstract

Entry Level Salaries of Academic Economists: Does Gender or Age Matter?

Cited by 33 publications

References 5 publications

The Editorial Boards of Italian Economics Journals: Women, Gender, and Social Networking

The Editorial Boards of Italian Economics Journals: Women, Gender, and Social Networking

Women in the Economics Profession

Sex Differences in Faculty Salaries: A Cohort Analysis

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About