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Title: A Search Interpretation of Male-Female Wage Differentials
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Bowlus, Audra Jann |
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A Search Interpretation of Male-Female Wage Differentials Journal of Labor Economics 15,4 (October 1997): 625-657. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/209840 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Keyword(s): Behavior; College Graduates; Gender Differences; High School Completion/Graduates; Quits; Wage Differentials A general equilibrium search framework is used to examine the role of gender differences in labor market behavior patterns (e.g., quit rates for personal reasons) in determining gender wage differentials. For samples of high school and college graduates from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), these behavioral patterns are found to be significantly different across the sexes and account for 20%-30% of the wage differentials. In particular, they play a key role in explaining the male-female wage differential that remains after controlling for the gender composition across occupations. |
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Bowlus, Audra Jann. "A Search Interpretation of Male-Female Wage Differentials." Journal of Labor Economics 15,4 (October 1997): 625-657.
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