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Author: Hwang, Kyudae
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1. Hwang, Kyudae
A Structural Approach to Estimating Sex-Based Wage Discrimination: Causal and Indicator Models
Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1987
Cohort(s): Young Men, Young Women
Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning
Keyword(s): Discrimination; Discrimination, Sex; Wages

This study compares a causal model, suggested by human capital theory with an indicator model, suggested by the theory of statistical discrimination. The models are investigated by: (1) developing a framework for estimating wage discrimination, (2) estimating/comparing the structural coefficients among productivity proxies, productivity, and wages, (3) employing two techniques to obtain productivity scores (i.e., least squares and weighted least squares) in the indicator model, and (4) comparing estimates of wage discrimination across the models. In addition, reverse regression analyses are performed in order to compare the indicator model with reverse regression. The data for empirical analyses are taken from the Young Men and Women cohorts of the NLS. In this study estimates of wage discrimination differ depending on the assumption about the relationships between productivity proxies and productivity and the method used to obtain productivity scores within the indicator model. Reverse regression, however, leads to the same estimates of wage discrimination as does direct regression when weights for productivity scores are created either by direct regression coefficients or the least-squares method. Implications of this work for future theoretical and empirical development are suggested. [UMI ADG87- 23335]
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Hwang, Kyudae. A Structural Approach to Estimating Sex-Based Wage Discrimination: Causal and Indicator Models. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1987.