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Title: Extended Working Paper Version: The Gender Gap Between Earnings Distributions
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Publication Year: 2016
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Abstract: This paper examines the evolution of the gender gap in the United States for several decades, including the most recent recession. We simultaneously address two largely overlooked issues, namely a) heterogeneity and b) selection in labor force participation. We find that these considerations argue in favor of broader definitions and measures of the gender gap that better reflect heterogeneity and the evolution of the gap between distributions of wages. A new quantile-Copula modeling approach to the joint determination of wages and participation decision for both men and women is examined. This approach addresses the selection issue beyond mean and median that the prior literature has largely focused on. It also relaxes the rank invariance assumption commonly made in the Quantile Treatment Efect (QTE) literature and allows us to recover the gender gap . . .
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Authors: Maasoumi, Esfandiar; Wang, Le
Publisher: Emory University
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Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other
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