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Title: Patterns of Selection in Labor Market Participation
Citation Type: Working Paper
Publication Year: 2012
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Abstract: Understanding how selection into employment has changed over time is crucial for interpreting the convergence of the measured gender wage gap. However, selection correctionmethods, which rely on questionable assumptions, have arrived at conflicting conclusions about selection. This paper directly measures patterns of selection of men and women using measures of pre-labor market cognitive ability (high school test scores) from longitudinal educational surveys. Using data from Project Talent, NLS-72, High School and Beyond, and NELS-88, we are able to follow four cohorts from high school until labor market entry andinvestigate how selection on ability changes over time and over the life cycle. We find that differential selection on the ability of female labor market participants is unlikely to explain the entire convergence of the measured gender wage gap and explore why our results differ from those of previous work.
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Authors: Machado, Cecilia; Herrmann, Mariesa
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Institution: Institute for the Study of Labor
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Topics: Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure
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