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Title: The Narrowing of the U.S. Gender Earnings Gap, 1969-1999: A Cohort-Based Analysis

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Publication Year: 2004

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Abstract: Using Census data from 1969-1999 and a panel of college-educated workers from 1989-1999, we examine changes across birth cohorts in womens relative rates of age-related, within-cohort earnings growth. Contrary to what is suggested by a simple general training model in which comparably-qualified women begin their working lives at similar (or higher) earnings than men, then fall behind as they age, we find roughly similar rates of age-related earnings growth for women and men in all cohorts, but large and permanent differences in the gender-earnings gap between successive cohorts of American workers. We speculate on the types of models that might explain such a pattern.

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Authors: Weinberger, Catherine; Kuhn, Peter

Publisher: University of California Santa Barbara

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other

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