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Title: The Gender Pay Gap by Occupation: A Test of the Crowding Hypothesis
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Solberg, Eric J. |
The Gender Pay Gap by Occupation: A Test of the Crowding Hypothesis Contemporary Economic Policy 23,1 (January 2005): 129-148. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1093/cep/byi011/pdf Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Western Economic Association International Keyword(s): Gender Differences; Occupations; Wages Identified, structural wage equations for seven occupations are estimated to test the crowding hypothesis—that the gender pay gap is due to females being crowded into low-paying occupations—using data drawn from the 1996 wave of the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY79). Occupational preferences are used to estimate a logit probability model of occupational assignment to create instruments to control for self-selection. Wage equations are estimated for all workers and for full-time, year-round workers. Identical specifications are estimated for private-sector workers. The results are not consistent with a crowding explanation as the sole source of the gender pay gap unless crowding occurs at less aggregated levels of occupations than those used for this study. |
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Solberg, Eric J. "The Gender Pay Gap by Occupation: A Test of the Crowding Hypothesis." Contemporary Economic Policy 23,1 (January 2005): 129-148.
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