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Author: Fligstein, Neil
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1. Fligstein, Neil
Wolf, Wendy
How Can We Explain the Apparent Sex Similarities in Occupational Status Attainment?
In: Women's Changing Roles at Home and on the Job: National Commission for Manpower Policy, Special Report No: 26. Washington, DC: U.S. GPO, 1978
Cohort(s): Mature Women
Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor
Keyword(s): Occupational Segregation; Occupational Status; Sex Equality; Sex Roles

In the past, studies to discover the extent and nature of sexual inequalities in economic rewards and labor market positions have been concentrated in three major areas: wage differentials, occupational segregation by sex, and occupational status differentials. While research in two of these areas, wage differentials and occupational segregation by sex, have illustrated sexual inequalities and pointed to ways to remedy them, research on sex differences in occupational status attainment has led to the somewhat paradoxical findings that men and women essentially have parity in labor market positions. This paradox has ambiguities as to the mechanism by which sexual equality in labor market positions could be obtained. This paper attempts to discuss and empirically assess why the status attainment literature produces seemingly paradoxical findings about sexual inequalities in labor market positions. In this paper, these three research traditions are briefly discussed and the authors posit and test one explanation for the counterintuitive findings of the status attainment literature. They find that one potential source of bias in estimating equations for women's occupational attainments is the exclusion of nonworking women from the occupational attainments equations. They present a technique that presents estimations of the structural parameters for all currently employed women, regardless of their occupational status.
Bibliography Citation
Fligstein, Neil and Wendy Wolf. "How Can We Explain the Apparent Sex Similarities in Occupational Status Attainment?" In: Women's Changing Roles at Home and on the Job: National Commission for Manpower Policy, Special Report No: 26. Washington, DC: U.S. GPO, 1978
2. Fligstein, Neil
Wolf, Wendy
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.
Bibliography Citation
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.
3. Fligstein, Neil
Wolf, Wendy
The Impact of the Censoring Problem on Estimating Women's Occupational Attainment Equations
Discussion Paper No. 371-76, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1977
Cohort(s): Mature Women
Publisher: Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP), University of Wisconsin - Madison
Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Family Income; Occupational Attainment; Sex Education; Women

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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 we define as a censoring problem. By extending a technique developed by Heckman, we can estimate the structural parameters for all women, regardless of current employment status. This procedure allows us to assess the impact of the censoring problem on women's occupational attainment equations.
Bibliography Citation
Fligstein, Neil and Wendy Wolf. "The Impact of the Censoring Problem on Estimating Women's Occupational Attainment Equations." Discussion Paper No. 371-76, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1977.