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Title: Women at Work. A Task Analysis of the Gender Wage Gap

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Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: We use a task-based approach to analyze the gender wage gap in the U.S. labour market from 2003 to 2010 on CPS data. Our empirical strategy accounts for heterogeneous selection into employment and occupations according to the latters task intensity. Differently from previous literature, we let the data speak for itself and identify three fundamental tasks defining an occupation: manual, cognitive-decisional and cognitive-professional tasks. Once accounted for heterogeneous selection rules into employment and for endogeneity of tasks, the gap narrows in manual intensive and cognitive-professional jobs, while it widens with the intensity of cognitive-decisional tasks.

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Authors: Casabianca, Elizabeth J.; Lo Turco, Alessia; Pigini, Claudia

Publisher: Universita Politecnica delle Marche

Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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