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Title: Monopsony, Mobility, and Sex Differences in Pay: Missouri School Teachers

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2011

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Abstract: We examine the sex differences in the pay of school teachers in Missouri. In Missouri school districts, pay is determined by a salary schedule that maps teaching experience and education level of an individual to a salary level. In spite of this apparently mechanical rule for determining pay, female teachers earn less than male teachers, after controlling for experience and education. We explore how such a difference could arise from differential job mobility and find some evidence to support this idea. However, within district differences in pay are a more important source of differences in pay between men and women.

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Authors: Lambson, Val E.; Ransom, Michael R.

Periodical (Full): American Economic Review

Issue: 3

Volume: 101

Pages: 454-459

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Gender

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