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Title: A Multivariate Approach to the Gender Wage Gap
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Witkowski, Kristine M. |
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A Multivariate Approach to the Gender Wage Gap Presented: Denver, CO, Population Association of America Meetings, April 1992. Also: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/101056965 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Age at First Birth; Children; Gender Differences; Marital Status; Marriage; Wage Differentials; Wage Gap Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study tests various theories about the gender wage gap. Hypotheses cover a broad spectrum of individual and structural constraints on earnings attainment: human capital investment, fertility/marital timing and structure, occupational environment, and the social construction of skill. Utilizing a sample of salaried workers (age 23-29) extracted from the NLSY (N=5171), analyses were conducted on female and male populations and their subgroups of (1) the never- married childless, (2) single parents and (3) married parents. The results show that marriage, age of youngest child, age at first birth, and years married all significantly influence the gender wage gap. The other conceptual groups of variables were found to differentially impact earnings across gender and their marital/fertility disaggregates. |
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Witkowski, Kristine M. "A Multivariate Approach to the Gender Wage Gap." Presented: Denver, CO, Population Association of America Meetings, April 1992. |