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Holleman, Julie D. |
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Nonpecuniary Job Characteristics: The Impact on Women's Wages Ph.D. Dissertation, Texas A and M University, 1989 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Gender Differences; Job Rewards; Occupations, Female; Occupations, Male; Wage Gap This dissertation examines whether the inclusion of nonpecuniary job characteristics can help explain why a male/female wage gap persists. Two samples of workers are drawn from the NLSY 1979-1985. The mean values of nonpecuniary job characteristics of the jobs typically held by the NLS women are compared with the mean values of these characteristics for the NLS men. Hazard model analysis is used to calculate the female workers' marginal willingness to pay for these specific nonwage job characteristics. This estimation of women's marginal willingness to pay is used to analyze if women prefer their jobs to a typical male job by calculating a nonwage compensation differential. Four of the six empirical tests result in a negative nonwage compensation differential, suggesting that women prefer the nonwage job characteristics associated with their jobs to those which are generally associated with the jobs the men hold; however, the remaining two estimations result in a positive nonwage compensation differential. Thus, while differences are found in the nonwage job characteristics that are associated with the jobs that the NLS males and females hold, the results from the 1979 and 1982 samples find no clear pattern of preference for those characteristics which are associated with the jobs which the females typically hold. [UMI ADG90-15515] |
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Holleman, Julie D. Nonpecuniary Job Characteristics: The Impact on Women's Wages. Ph.D. Dissertation, Texas A and M University, 1989. |