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Title: You're Educated, Now What? The Over-Time Effects of Education on Gender Wage Inequality
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Fan, Xueqing |
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You're Educated, Now What? The Over-Time Effects of Education on Gender Wage Inequality Master's Thesis, Department of Industrial Relations and Human Resources, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, 2021 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Gender Differences; Occupations; Wage Gap; Wage Growth Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Utilizing nationally representative panel data from the U.S. (8,433 individuals, 18 years), this study explores the effect of employees' educational attainments on gender wage inequality from a dynamic perspective. I treat education as a life-altering event that initiates a new wage trajectory by the shaping wage level and setting the pace of wage growth. Drawing on human capital theory and the framework of wage inequality processes (i.e., allocative inequality, valuative inequality, and within-job inequality), I argue that educational attainments lead to differential intraindividual changes in the wage trajectories for men and women. I find that educational attainments are followed by an immediate increase in pay level and a greater wage growth rate for both women and men. After educational attainments, while women could attain a greater immediate increase in pay level by transferring to occupations that are considered more prestigious, they suffer from a slower rate of wage growth than men. I also find that the positive effect of holding prestigious jobs on wage growth is stronger when the occupations are more represented by men rather than women. |
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Fan, Xueqing. You're Educated, Now What? The Over-Time Effects of Education on Gender Wage Inequality. Master's Thesis, Department of Industrial Relations and Human Resources, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, 2021. |