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Title: Sex Similarities in Occupational Status Attainment: Are the Results Due to the Restriction of the Sample to Employed Women?
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Fligstein, Neil Wolf, Wendy |
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Sex Similarities in Occupational Status Attainment: Are the Results Due to the Restriction of the Sample to Employed Women? Social Science Research 7,2 (June 1978): 197-212. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0049089X7890011X Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: Academic Press, Inc. Keyword(s): Employment; Gender Differences; Marital Status; Occupational Attainment; Occupational Status; Sample Selection; Women Research on sex differences in occupational attainment suggests that working men and working women attain essentially the same mean level of occupational attainment and do so through quite similar processes. A possible explanation for these similarities is that the sample of working women contains an overrepresentation of successful women, since women who can afford not to work will stay out of the labor force unless they find a job commensurate with their education. This is defined as a censoring problem. By extending a technique developed by Heckman, the authors estimate the structural parameters for all women regardless of current employment status. This procedure allows assessment of the impact of the censoring problem on women's occupational attainment equations. |
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Fligstein, Neil and Wendy Wolf. "Sex Similarities in Occupational Status Attainment: Are the Results Due to the Restriction of the Sample to Employed Women?" Social Science Research 7,2 (June 1978): 197-212.
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