Swimming Upstream: Trends in the Gender Wage Differential in the 1980s

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.

doi:10.1086/209845

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“…8 Table 1 shows the means for a key set of variables across four classifications by gender and education groups. The low education group (LHS) is restricted to those between 9 and 12 years of completed schooling, including high school graduates.…”

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“…That translates into an almost 30% wage premium for men. 8 We thank Audrey Light for alerting us to this issue. 9 Our wage analyses are presented for these two education groups separately.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A major focus in the economics literature is the earnings disparity across women and men. Various empirical studies (Blau and Kahn 1997; O'Neill and Polachek 1993;…”

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Gender gap in wage returns to job tenure and experience

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We present empirical evidence on gender differences in wage returns on firmspecific experience (job tenure) and general experience. We find that overall returns on an extra year of labor market experience are lower for women than men. However, a decomposition analysis shows that the return on job tenure is substantially lower for women than it is for men, and that the return on general experience is higher for women than it is for men. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that despite their growing attachment to the labor market, women are less likely to invest in job-specific skills or to self-select into jobs with backloaded compensation because women are more prone to job separations than their male counterparts. The lower estimated returns on tenure for women could also be due to employer discrimination in hiring, and the provision of training and promotion opportunities within firms.

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“…Moreover, the narrowing of gender gaps cannot be attributed only to the globalization process because other changes also had an impact. It may be that the improved quality of female labour with the incorporation of workers who were more experienced and better educated (O'Neill andPolachek 1993, Goldin 2000) and the fall in wages for less skilled male workers (Blau and Kahn 1997) came into play, rather than just an increase in the demand for female labour.…”

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“…In an international comparison, Blau and Kahn (1997) found that labour markets with highly unequal rates of remuneration also have high levels of gender inequality. Next we tested their relation between overall wage inequality and gender gap for Latin America.…”

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The Lingering Face of Gender Inequality in Latin America

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Maubrigades

2017

Has Latin American Inequality Changed Direction?

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Welfare, work experience, and economic self-sufficiency

Loeb

Corcoran

2001

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The potential of former AFDC recipients to earn a living wage is central to the success of welfare‐to‐work programs. Previous studies have found that welfare recipihyphen;ents see little increase in their wages over time. Low wage growth could arise from either low returns to work experience or low levels of experience. This distinction is important for designing effective welfare policy. In the following paper, we estimate how wages grew with work experience between 1978 and 1992 for a national sample of women from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. We compare women who never received welfare with both short‐ and long‐term recipients in order to see to what extent the rates of wage growth with work experience differ. We find that they differ very little. We use numerous specification checks to test the robustness of our results and find consistent evidence that the wages of AFDC recipients grew at a rate similar to those of nonrecipients once work experience is taken into account. © 2001 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.

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Swimming Upstream: Trends in the Gender Wage Differential in the 1980s

Cited by 615 publications

References 11 publications

Gender gap in wage returns to job tenure and experience

Gender gap in wage returns to job tenure and experience

The Lingering Face of Gender Inequality in Latin America

Welfare, work experience, and economic self-sufficiency

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