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Title: The Effects of Gender-Based Occupational Segregation on Women's Earnings in the United States and Canada

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 2019

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Abstract: The gender wage gap continues to prove a contentious topic with some going as far as to question its existence. However, scholarly works continue to prove it is real and impactful. More fruitful debates have arisen about the source of this disparity in wages. This paper seeks to analyze one possible explanation for the pay gap: gender-based occupational segregation. I used OLS regressions based on women working full-time between the ages of sixteen and sixty-five to measure this. I find a negative effect of segregated occupations on women’s earnings across countries and years. On a similar note, the percentage of females in an occupation correlates with lower earnings across the years in Canada and the United States.

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Authors: Milius, Jadyn G.

Conference Name: Proceedings of the Jepson Undergraduate Conference on International Economics,

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Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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