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Title: The Gender Wage Gap: Taking Into Consideration Occupational Characteristics and Gender Segregation

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Publication Year: 2010

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Abstract: This study investigates the effect of working in gender-dominated occupations on wages. Itcontrols for a set of key skill requirements and working conditions that define an occupation in order toisolate the impact of working in an environment with a higher percentage of women. The main goal is totake advantage of the detailed information about occupational characteristics provided by the O*NETdatabase by combining it with data from the Census 5% sample of the US population in 2000 to analyzeearnings and the wage differential between men and women. This approach builds on previous studiesthat have drawn occupational information from the Dictionary of Occupational Titles which is meant tobe replaced by the O*NET. Using this new source of rich occupational data, this paper aims to providebetter estimates of both the cost of working in highly feminized occupations and the contribution ofoccupational segregation to the measured gender wage gap.

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Authors: Turner, Robert; Khanna, Jyoti; Zlateva, Roumiana

Publisher: Colgate University

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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