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Title: Occupational Self-Selection: A Human Capital Approach to Sex Differences in Occupational Structure
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Polachek, Solomon W. |
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Occupational Self-Selection: A Human Capital Approach to Sex Differences in Occupational Structure Review of Economics and Statistics 63,1 (February 1981): 60-69. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1924218 Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: Harvard University Press Keyword(s): Discrimination, Sex; Human Capital Theory; Occupational Status; Occupations, Female Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The purpose of this paper is to alleviate some of the criticism of the human capital model by applying the hedonic price approach so as to embed occupational choice into the human capital framework. The significance is that neoclassical economic theory can be used to obtain implications concerning the determinants of occupational structure. The model outlined in this paper is in part designed to shed light on the question of why within most societies women are by and large relegated to different occupations than men. |
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Polachek, Solomon W. "Occupational Self-Selection: A Human Capital Approach to Sex Differences in Occupational Structure." Review of Economics and Statistics 63,1 (February 1981): 60-69.
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