The wage gap on Feministe
Due to popular demand, I’ve done my best to boil the wage gap down to one post on Feministe. Check it out – I expect a lively comment thread, as always.
Econometrics, gender, equity and more.
Due to popular demand, I’ve done my best to boil the wage gap down to one post on Feministe. Check it out – I expect a lively comment thread, as always.
If you haven’t seen it, the QJE just published an interesting paper, which argues that the gender wage gap has fallen approximately 0% in the last 30 years. Instead, it used to be that low-potential-wage (“ability”, whatever) women used to disproportionately select into the marketplace and increasingly, now, high-potential-wage do. So while average female wages have risen relative to males, the underlying returns, given other characteristics, have changed not-at-all.
Which has interesting corollaries that 1) the apparent change in the wage gap is, to a large degree, illusory, and 2) wage inequality among women (as among virtually every demographic group US) is growing.
lagged_variable
17 July 2008 at 9:05 am
I haven’t seen that, but it looks fascinating. I will have a look. Thanks!
Allison
18 July 2008 at 12:42 am