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Title: “Go West, Young Woman?”: The Geography of the Gender Wage Gap through the Great Recession
Citation Type: Working Paper
Publication Year: 2016
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Abstract: Despite headline-grabbing accounts of the ‘Man-cession’ and childless metropolitan-dwelling women who earn more than men, the gender wage gap remains persistent. The spatiality of the gender wage gap has received little attention, despite geographers’ historic concerns with patterns of inequality under economic shifts and economic sociologists’ increasingly geographic focus. In this paper, I ask whether, where, and how the gender wage gap has changed with the recession. Using American Community Survey pooled surveys for 2005-7 and 2011-13, I model counterfactual wage distributions for full-time male and female workers in the top 100 metropolitan areas of the U.S., controlling for education, age, and experience. Results indicate that gender inequality is spatially polarizing, both across the wage distribution and across the country, and that the recession exacerbates this pattern. Gender gaps decline most in the Rustbelt, but show relative increases in many Western metropolitan areas (especially the Pacific Northwest and northern California). Further, the declines are mostly amongst below-median earning workers, whereas the . . .
Url: http://papers.ccpr.ucla.edu/index.php/pwp/article/view/639
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Authors: Goodwin-White, Jamie
Series Title: CCPR Population Working Papers
Publication Number: PWP-CCPR-2016-039
Institution: University of California- Los Angelos
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Publisher Location: Los Angelos
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other
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