The Crowding Hypothesis and Comparable Worth

Sexually-Integrated Workplaces and Divorce: Another Form of On-the-Job Search

“…This feature of the labor market has been of most interest to those researchers attempting to explain the gap between male and female wages (e.g. Bayard et al, 2000;Macpherson and Hirsch, 1995;and Sorenson, 1990). This literature also documents the declines in occupational segregation over time.…”

Job satisfaction and the gender composition of jobs

“…Many studies report that the proportion of men in an occupation has a significant, positive relation with wages (e.g., Johnson and Solon, 1987;England et al, 1988;Sorensen, 1990;Groshen, 1991;Macpherson and Hirsch, 1995), 1 and researchers offer a variety of explanations for the pay disparity between female-and male-dominated occupations, such as discrimination, job-specific differences in productivity, and compensating differentials. 2 Research indicates that the positive relation between the proportion male in an occupation and wages is reduced, but still persists, when the wage equation controls for the job-characteristics.…”

Where Are We in the Economics of Gender?: The Gender Pay Gap

“…First, in the U. S., a significant portion of the malefemale pay gap has been found to be associated with interindust~or interfirm wage differentials (Blau 1977, Johnson and Solon 1986, Sorensen 1990, and Groshen 1991. The relatively large pay variation across industries and firms in the U.S. is to some extent an outgrowth of our relatively decentralized pay-setting institutions.…”